[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Debian patches for sword (and test suite)

[Daniel Glassey]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Daniel Glassey wrote:
>
>> There are a set of patches in the debian/patches directory for 1.5.9.
>> Would anyone like to go through them and verify if they are still
>> necessary for 1.5.11? After that we should check if they are in
>> current svn.
>
> Already under way, I started on that last night.

Great :)

> Most are already in
> 1.5.11 or no longer needed, as far as I can see.  1.5.11 will build with
> only a small 02_libver.diff to use -version-info 7 (and would probably
> buld without even that, I just haven't tried it!).
>
> I hope to post more details later today on this... the huge 13000 line
> 03_clucene.diff I am definitely glad to see go :)
>
> Is there a somewhat standard set of tests for a newly built libsword7
> (or whateve we call it!) library (other than building the big GUI apps
> against it and running them -- I'm hoping for something more automated)?
>
> Is there a cli app that exercises every library function, for example?
> diatheke uses some, but not all, of them, from what I can see.

Alas not. There are a few undocumented test programs in the tests
directory. There are also some unit tests in there as well that
someone started that test the basic classes. Completing that work
would be a good project for this group to take on (later!).

Thanks,
Daniel