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On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> To be honest, I think the first thing to do would be fixing the test |
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> suites to skip tests which fail due to internet connection being |
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> unavailable. Well, there would still be question how to reliably |
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> determine that... |
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For some packages, e.g. geocode-glib, which is basically a library for |
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calling a particular web service from C code, running the test suite |
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without network access is almost pointless. (Unless, of course, you |
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feel like implementing a clone of that web service just to run the |
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test suite.) |
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I don't like tests that need network access, but in a few cases, they |
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are the only to automatically verify that a package works. |
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-Alexandre. |
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