From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:28:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Use mongoose to test smart-http unconditionally?
Message-ID: <20131204232800.GG29959@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131204184842.GA11024@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> I don't know if it is worth all that much effort, though. I suppose it
> could get us more exposure to the httpd tests, but I do not know if it
> would be a good idea to turn them on by default anyway. They touch
> global machine resources (like ports) that can cause conflicts or test
> failures. I assume that is the reason we do not turn on git-daemon tests
> by default

Yup, that's why I don't run them.

For what it's worth, when I build git and run tests I tend to be in an
environment with apache available, but I'm too lazy to configure git's
tests to pick the right port and make sure it is reserved and so on.
Perhaps there's some way to help lazy people in the same boat?  (E.g.,
picking a port randomly and skipping instead of failing a test when
it's taken or something)