On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Geoffrey Young wrote:
I don't suppose there's a simple way to ask Apache::Test if it can find a server without prompting the user? That seems like the best way to test for this.yeah, that's the code I had in there: my %args = @Apache::TestMM::Argv; die 'suitable httpd required' unless ($args{apxs} or $args{httpd} or $ENV{APACHE_TEST_HTTPD} or $ENV{APACHE_TEST_APXS});
It's too bad this isn't an Apache::Test method/function. That'd be quite handy.
where the user is Apache-Test savvy. I _think_ it also covers when a user has ~/.apache-test and/or TestConfigData.pm, but now I just can't remember.
Unfortunately it doesn't, which is kind of bad, since I have TestConfigData.pm and it's kind of important that I can run the tests. That may be why I first looked at that code and wanted to remove it.
"the tests will fail unless the httpd environment isn't properly set up, but those test failures aren't really test failures they're environment failures - you don't know if the tests fail or not because you can't actually run them. so, do our best to set up the environment (without prompting the user), but if we can't don't run the tests." in my own modules, I really don't care about telling people "go setup Apache-Test, then your tests won't fail" but for our public distributions I think it looks bad to have failing cpan-tester reports and bug reports flooding the dev list due to a bad test environment (rather than actual failing tests). make sense?
I'm with you on the goal, but I think it needs to check to for TestConfigData.pm and ~/.apache-test as well to be useful.
Is there a separate check I can do for those? Looking at Apache::TestConfig I cannot figure out how to do it without invoking the prompts.
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