On Feb 13, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 20:04, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Comment below.
>> 
>> On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> This is generally how I've run these tests, but I've generally preferred a 
>> test per item - that way you get a more informed failure when there's a 
>> problem.  E.g., you get "cert was not in application list" instead of 
>> "expected true but got false".  This test is now stable, but failures won't 
>> be very readable.
> 
> The purpose of the test is to verify that puppet does the right thing
> when it has multiple locations for applications on the Ruby load path
> – not to verify the presence or absence of core applications.  Those
> are checked to verify, in essence, the sanity of the test before we
> run the real one.
> 
> So, I agree with your assessment, but I think it is kind of a
> distraction from the main purpose.  Is that reasonable?  It wouldn't
> be hard to revisit this and correct it...

Ah, ok; I misread the purpose of the test.

Thanks.

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