Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/dist

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50:50AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> Perhaps if atf were less intrusive...?

What do you mean? I think it needs to be quite intrusive (sandboxing, etc.).
Unquestionably the old /regress-style is not the way to go. Even if you
dislike some parts of the API, already the consistency is a big win.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:50:22AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> One of the ideas floating around in my head is to make atf-run (well,
> kyua) support "foreign" tests.  The most basic form of this would be
> programs that just return 0 on success or 1 on failure, but maybe it'd
> be extended to also support autotest programs, etc.

Wasn't there already a test or two doing something like this? Fine by me,
as long as we do not regress to the old /regress-style in which it is usually
hard to even know what is being tested.

> Sure, their functionality would be limited within the framework (as
> compared to "native atf tests", but this would allow us to "mux" all the
> tests in one single run without much effort.

But in reality, the gcc(1) test suite is probably the only one that would
really be worth considering. NetBSD does not ship that much third-party
software, and the availability of tests is generally quite limited among
this group.

- Jukka.