On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > About the Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI thing, how widely available is it? > I do not think it is packaged for Debian nor Ubuntu, for example. Not very widely; practically you have to install it from CPAN. Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI is at v0.1, WWW::Mechanize::CGI is at v0.3. But if Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGI is not installed, test would be not run. If you are gitweb developer, then installing locally in $HOME from CPAN is I guess viable option; if you are not gitweb developer, we still have t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh The whole point of using those packages was that it makes it _easy_ to write those tests. This consist of two parts: 1). running gitweb as if it was CGI application, which otherwise would either require deep knowledge of how CGI application is invoked (what it is in WWW::Mechanize::CGI and required dependence HTTP::Request::AsCGI which I think does all the work) or working web server, done a la "git instaweb", 2.) accessing and testing gitweb output (what Test::WWW::Mechanize, WWW::Mechanize does; we could do the same with LWP* modules from libwww-perl / perl-libwww-perl package and Test::More from Perl, but it would be repeating Test::WWW::Mechanize work). -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
