Re: Changes to the test suite repository

Oouch ! I'd never think to this before !

Nice job !
Christophe

Le 14/04/2021 à 17:01, Norm Tovey-Walsh a écrit :
> Hi folks,
>
> I doubt anyone but Achim or I will care, but I’m going to push a change
> to the 3.0-test-suite repo this evening (or at least very soon) that
> changes the way the http tests work.
>
> Today, the http tests run against a public server (tests.xproc.org)
> that’s in a shared hosting environment. There are a number of reasons
> why that’s imperfect, but recently the shared hosting provider installed
> ModSecurity and caused a bunch of tests to stop working. That makes all
> of the other concerns sort of moot.
>
> I’ve repackaged the tests so that they run in a Docker container. Achim
> and I have both succeeded with this arrangement, so I’m going to push it
> to master.
>
> One nice consequence of this change is that it will be easy to add new
> tests for new kinds of online services without having to configure them
> on some public server that, for example, only I have write access to.
>
> The Docker container is hosted on GitHub so that you can pull it
> directly, but the sources are also in the repo. You can build it
> yourself and extend it if you wish.
>
> If anyone has questions or comments, let me know.
>
>                                          Be seeing you,
>                                            norm
>
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> Norman Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
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>
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