memcached QA

Michael Wieher michael.wieher at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 20:06:45 UTC 2008


>From your typical-end-user point of view it really doesn't matter,
since the only OS I can think of that doesn't include a perl install
by default is Windows, and no one uses that anymore.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick <brad at danga.com> wrote:
> I wrote the original tests in Perl because it was quick, I knew Perl, and
> there weren't any new dependencies.
>
> But if we want to include libmemcache with memcached (at least for testing),
> we could just as well write the tests in C too.  *shrug*
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:50 AM, dormando <dormando at rydia.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Well the perl tests that come with memcached are *official* so far as I'm
>> concerned. Historically the tests were perl, we've tried to maintain them as
>> perl, and I'm a little confused as to where we are right now.
>>
>> Since most of the developers on this project hate each others' primary
>> languages (but we share C in common), we now have test suites in all sorts
>> of crazy languages that live inside/outside of the tree. The libmemcached C
>> tests are pretty good, there're java tests that trond has, python tests
>> dustin has, and I try to port tests to perl. Tomash has been writing perl
>> tests as well.
>>
>> I'd prefer we keep everything to one language so the deps just to
>> buildtest memcached aren't too wild... I was volunteering to port all tests
>> to perl (and have been updating the binary tree tests, etc), but I've been
>> under a rock for the last few months so this might not be plausible anymore.
>>
>> In my humble; the distro _must_ have a 'make test' that tests memcahced to
>> the best of our ability. Tests should be updated, new features should have
>> tests, blah blah blah.
>>
>> Anyone else have thoughts on the matter?
>> -Dormando
>>
>> Victor Kirkebo wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I see a lot of activity and work being done on the code base; bugs being
>>> fixed and new features added etc. There is a handful of small tests that
>>> come with memcached that is useful for sanity testing of memcached. People
>>> are also writing their own tests and doing their own testing before features
>>> are added and new versions released; I'm not sure how visible or easily
>>> shared this work is. I'd like to know if anybody has any thoughts or wishes
>>> on this matter?
>>>
>>> -Victor
>>
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