On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Thomas Bellman wrote: > >> Markus Roberts wrote: >> >>>> Well, the latest one available in EPEL and in Fedora 12 is 1.2.7, >>>> so >>>> requiring anything newer than that makes it difficult to run the >>>> tests >>>> on those platforms. >>> >>> AFAIK, the current version is available for all platforms (rspec is >>> pure ruby--nothing in it is platform specific) so there should be >>> nothing difficult about running the most current version on any >>> platform. All you should need to do is pull down the gem and go. >> >> Anyone who seriously does systems administration should realize that >> GEM (and CPAN for that matter) sucks badly. A secondary package >> system that doesn't play together with the normal one. > > I definitely agree with that. >
I'm not sure how this relates to unit testing. While I can imagine a full integration test suite, if platform specific, should have better OS packaging system requirements, this strikes me as a total hamstring to a development process in other cases (ie, a systems administration constraint where one shouldn't exist). Maybe the issue here is that the two should be separated. >>> As this is something that you should be doing on a directly >>> controlled >>> machine (i.e., you won't be needing to install rspec on the clients >>> or >>> anything) I'm not seeing where this presents a difficulty. >> >> It's not exactly encouraging occasional developers/patch writers to >> do >> unit tests, since we will need to install a throw-away machine just >> to >> run them. > > Hmm, that's a good point. I'd always figured your admin workstation > would be easy to have these gems installed on, but it sounds like > that's not the case. > > What would we need to do to make this easier? Be more flexible on > rspec versions or something? > > -- > Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it > from a > religious conviction. --Blaise Pascal > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
