[Buildroot] [PATCH/next v3 5/8] support/testing: add perl-libwww-perl test

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 11:56:30 +0100, François Perrad wrote:

> > Sorry if I haven't followed the previous discussion, but why do we have
> > this docstring ? Is it just for information ?
> >  
> Yes, this is for information.

OK.

> By this way, we know that we don't need to write another test for HTTP-Date
> or IO-HTML.

This is not really true. Indeed, if you test HTTP-Date with plenty of
other packages installed, how are you sure that HTTP-Date has all the
necessary runtime dependencies it needs ?

Only a test with only HTTP-Date installed and its dependencies will
allow to verify this.

> > > +    def test_run(self):
> > > +        self.login()
> > > +        self.module_test("LWP")
> > > +        self.module_test("LWP::UserAgent")
> > > +        self.module_test("LWP::Authen::Basic")
> > > +        self.module_test("LWP::Authen::Digest")
> > > +        self.module_test("HTTP::Message")
> > > +        self.module_test("HTTP::Daemon")
> > > +        self.module_test("WWW::RobotRules")  
> >
> > Why are you testing specifically those modules ? What is the rule to
> > decide what modules are tested here ?
> >
> >  
> libwww-perl is a special package/distribution from the beginning of the WWW
> history
> (started in 1995, see https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/libwww-perl
> ).
> In fact, libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules.
> LWP (Lib World-Wide Web Perl) is just a name space for some of them, and
> doesn't match with the distribution name libwww.
> So, we need load most of them.

OK, so all those modules are the ones part of libwww-perl, i.e we are
not testing modules installed by other packages, correct ?

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com