On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Ruediger Pluem wrote: > > > On 4/29/26 10:32 AM, Joe Orton wrote: > > Per the recent vote, https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests is now a > > read/write Git master for the Perl-based test framework. I will set up > > some basic .asf.yaml settings now that I've seen it's working. > > > > Thanks for taking care. One quick question. The previous Subversion based > repository > has a svn:external on Apache-Test: > > Apache-Test https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/Apache-Test/trunk > > Is Apache-Test no longer needed? Testing worked fine for me with a freshly > cloned > https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests.git which does not have an Apache-Test > directory.
Good question... Apache::Test is still needed but was never required in ./Apache-Test, the test framework will use it if installed as normal from CPAN. And it will still use it if you check out a copy in ./Apache-Test. The main advantage of having the externals set up was that we could depend on changes to Apache::Test which haven't made it to a CPAN release. We could ask the Perl PMC to have Apache-Test mirrored to git and then import it again via .gitmodules to get an equivalent setup. Regards, Joe
