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(CC-ing Package Manager devs) |
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Dear developers, |
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For this year's GSoC I'm working a project called the 'PMS test suite'. |
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In simplest words, it will be a suite of tools allowing to test |
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a particular Package Manager for compliance with what PMS says. |
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The final objective would be for the suite to be able to flexibly |
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adjust itself to changes in PMS, reading the specs directly from it |
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and matching them with available tests. As Hans de Graaff suggested, |
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dev-util/cucumber could be used for that. Reaching this objective |
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isn't planned for the SoC coding period though. |
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The first step would be to develop a simple test library format |
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and a suite of tools to convert those tests into ebuilds and run them |
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using a PM of choice. Afterwards, that suite could be extended with |
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a tool creating such a library using PMS spec directly. |
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I'm going to begin creating/forking repos and coding soon, thus I'd |
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appreciate any comments and advises. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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