On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 13:07 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Subrata Modak
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Garrett,
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 14:40 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >> Hi LTP devs,
> >>     I was wondering if I would have your folks' blessings to take the
> >> test reporting and manipulation pieces of LTP and create a separate
> >> project for test reporting, such that LTP (and other projects) can
> >> benefit from the generalized reporting and test behavior modification.
> >
> > That is a wonderful proposal. We now have support for testcases in LTP
> > library for test cases written in C and Shell. It would be really nice
> > to see if the same can be extended to other programming languages like
> > the Perl, Java and Python, if we can create the same tst_* set of
> > libraries for them.
> >
> > It would go in long way for people who are much familiar with these
> > languages, so that our scope of getting contribution in enlarged. I
> > would really like to see that happen. And once that happens we can make
> > an announcement in the LKML and other mailing list saying that: "See
> > guys, you have these many languages in which you can write an LTP test
> > case, so what´s preventing you from writing one for us........"
> >        things like that.
> >
> >>     I am asking this because the tst_res portion of libltp is very
> >> beneficial and there are other languages that could be implemented in
> >> [working on a Java implementation, will do a Perl, shell script
> >> (bash/sh), and Python implementation].
> >
> > This spins off another interesting idea in my mind. If and when this is
> > ready we will go ahead and define corresponding templates (for writing
> > LTP test cases) in those new languages like the C and SHELL we have
> > here:
> > http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_4 &
> > http://ltp.sourceforge.net/documentation/how-to/ltp.php#_5
> >
> > I would be really happy if we can expand the base in which we can write
> > our test cases. Let me know what others think.
> >
> > Regards--
> > Subrata
> 
> Would it be possible to dual-license the libs under BSD and GPLv2
> licenses as well? I ask because many projects in the Unix world apart

I am not sure about this. May be Nate will be able to answer this more,
or Robert. Else, i need to talk to our Attorney for this.

Regards--
Subrata

> from Linux would benefit from libtr, and due to licensing concerns
> they restrict their permittable pkgs to closed-source compatible
> projects, but make a small exception for some GPL licensed core apps
> like binutils, gcc, etc.
> Thanks!
> -Garrett


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