Re: NSURLProtocol and WebDAV

[Philippe Roussel]

Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 à 20:53 +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald a
écrit :
> On 17 Jan 2011, at 20:15, Philippe Roussel wrote:
> > Just one question : would you mind having a helper in the testsuite
> > written in Python ? I know it could be problematic to be dependant on
> > Python but it would be a lot easier to test http connections, as writing
> > a http server takes maybe 20 lines.
> 
> I don't think using Python is a huge problem, though a plain C or ObjC
> helper would be better because we want the testsuite to be as
> self-contained as possible.  At the moment it needs only gnumake,
> gnustep-make and the toolchain to build ObjC programs (basically gcc).
> Ideally any tests using a python helper would first check that a
> suitable version of python is available on the system.
>  
> > The helpers I found in NSURL and NSURLHandle directories only compile
> > with GNUstep (not sure why) so the related tests are not really useful.
> 
> IIRC they use GNUstep specific extensions :-(
> 
> > The WebServer library in dev-libs could also be used but I don't know
> > how I could force its installation.
> 
> That may use GNUstep specific code too (I don't recall).   Your test
> code could check to see if it's installed, and skip tests which need
> the helper if it isn't ... much like checking to see if a suitable
> Python is installed.

It seems WebServer uses gnustep additions and Performance library.

I think I'll try the easy route and check for Python availability for
now. If the tests are useful, the helper could be converted to C or ObjC
later.

Thanks,
Philippe