Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: document that C & Python are the preferred languages

On 9/23/19 7:52 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:15:04PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:30:27PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: >>> (BTW, what does the removal of perl from libvirt say about continued >>> use of perl for libvirt-tck? There are a lot of useful tests in there >>> that find real bugs, but they tend to languish (both in use and in >>> enhancements) because nobody wants to do anything with perl (or with >>> the big shell scripts that do the nwfilter testing). It would be nice >>> if the tests were all in a language that was more accessible, but >>> they're kind of married to the perl TAP module (and besides, who >>> wants to spend time rewriting a bunch of test scripts when they >>> already work?). This is mostly a moot point, because I think hardly >>> anyone runs the libvirt-tck tests anymore, which is too bad because >>> it has historically caught some regressions that no other testing >>> framework did.) >> >> I believe they are run by the Red Hat virt QE team, as I ave >> got bug reports against the Perl libvirt bindings, where the >> reproducer is a TCK script. Sorry for jumping in late, but I also run TCK regularly and agree that it does find real bugs on occasion. I've submitted several patches over the years fixing bugs found by TCK, and a sprinkling of patches to TCK itself. I admit the perl requirement has deterred writing new tests.