[PATCH v2 2/3] Add XInput 2.x integration test framework

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun May 20 15:05:26 PDT 2012


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:58:27PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 05/15/2012 05:27 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:56:00PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
> >> On 05/15/2012 04:26 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >>> one question that remains though: my impression was that xorg-gtests would
> >>> go into the xorg-gtest repo but these are for the xserver repo. What's the
> >>> plan here?
> >>
> >> These tests are testing the X server itself. I believe that having the
> >> tests in the upstream project repo ensures they are more likely to be
> >> run during development. I don't really see a reason for why they should
> >> live somewhere else.
> > 
> > fair enough, but what tests would then go into the xorg-gtest repo?
> 
> None. xorg-gtest is a framework upon which tests are built. xserver,
> utouch-frame, utouch-grail, utouch-geis, etc. all have their own tests
> in their own source repos.
> 
> Think of xorg-gtest like Google Test or like the Check unit testing
> framework. They don't have tests themselves, they are frameworks for
> other projects to build tests upon.

oh right. that was my misunderstanding then. I thought the xserver tests
would be within xorg-gtest.

Cheers,
  Peter


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