> On 07 Nov 2016, at 22:20, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote: > >>> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> >>> >>> TravisCI changed their default macOS image from 10.10 to 10.11 [1]. >>> Unfortunately the HTTPD tests do not run out of the box using the >>> pre-installed Apache web server anymore. Therefore we enable these >>> tests only for Linux and disable them for macOS. >> [...] >> Hi Junio, >> >> the patch above is one of two patches to make TravisCI pass, again. >> Could you queue it? > > I don't really mind disabling tests if they don't run on a platform. But > the more interesting question to me is: why don't they run any more? Is > there some config tweak needed, or is it an insurmountable problem?
I can't really remember what the problem was. I think some apache config required some module that was not present and I wasn't able to get this working quickly. > Using Apache in the tests has been the source of frequent portability > problems and configuration headaches. I do wonder if we'd be better off > using some small special-purpose web server (even a short perl script > written around HTTP::Server::Simple or something). > > On the other hand, testing against Apache approximates a more real-world > case, which has value. It might be nice if our tests supported multiple > web servers, but that would mean duplicating the config for each > manually. I agree that the real-world Apache test is more valuable and I really want to keep the Linux Apache test running. However, I don't think many people use macOS as Git web server and therefore I thought it is not worth the effort to investigate this problem further. - Lars
