Hi Lars!~   
      
   10 Feb 13 11:48, you wrote to me:   
      
    RC>>    And since Debian is my primary dev platform, that means that   
    RC>> using what you're currently useing for testing isn't particularly   
    RC>> useful to me or to the packaging...   
      
    LS> The "roundup" script is included in the package, and since it's just a   
    LS> shell script I suspect you can use it without a problem.   
      
      I will be looking at that, but my preference would be a least for something    
   that is already available in Debian, if not also available on at least MS    
   Windows.  (I'm much more familiar with the testing facilities available to    
   Perl modules and script than I am for the same kind of things for C    
   programs...)   
      
      
    LS>   Calling it "not useful" seems...wrong?   
      
      Please keep in mind that while I can understand why you went the linux only    
   route with what you're doing, my intention with what I'm working on is to keep    
   it cross platform; even if I can't support all of the platforms directly    
   myself.  (For instance; I usually maintain at least one MS Windows VM, but    
   don't have a similar setup for OS/2...)  So my preference would be for    
   something usable (if not already available) on all of the platforms.   
      
     OTOH; you're certainly correct that a test suite should be available and    
   since 'roundup' is based on a shell script which can be included with the    
   distribution (like you've already done), that means there is no concern about    
   conflicting package names. (Not sure if that would be considered an embedded    
   library, which is frowned upon in Debian, since it's only for testing...) And    
   perhaps I could set a dependency for running the test suite for there being a    
   bourne shell available (it has been ported all over, after all, even though it    
   may not be available by default).   
      
      
    LS>   Having a test suite has already flushed out several bugs.   
      
      Yes, I saw that (and I like to use similar kind of thing for Perl modules    
   and scripts); which is why I also am interested in having the same kind of    
   thing.   
      
      
    LS> If you're aware of another Bourne shell test harness that's as easy   
    LS> to use   
      
      Not that I've been able to find, so far. Did find something called    
   "cmdtest" ("blackbox testing of Unix command line programs") in Debian but    
   that requires python.   
      
      
      
      
      
   Jame   
      
      
      
      
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