From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prereq to test cases that require English text matching
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BMizkU+P6VPhkbY_q2tYY5=aY-GNHeDjBYN9-zg2nENQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DpOL+V=sVZt3B-7OQ=POHtu1bovFB-sQ9HwPpmdKmN-A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> --- a/t/t0006-date.sh
>>> +++ b/t/t0006-date.sh
>>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TEST_DATE_NOW=1251660000; export TEST_DATE_NOW
>>>  check_show() {
>>>       t=$(($TEST_DATE_NOW - $1))
>>>       echo "$t -> $2" >expect
>>> -     test_expect_${3:-success} "relative date ($2)" "
>>> +     test_expect_${3:-success} C_LOCALE_OUTPUT "relative date ($2)" "
>>>       test-date show $t >actual &&
>>>       test_cmp expect actual
>>>       "
>>
>> Could use test_i18ncmp so we catch if test-date crashes, but anyway,
>> yeah, we can't expect to be able to meaningfully test date formatting
>> in another language.
>
> This reminds me of an inkscape crash I encountered long ago because of
> a mistake in Vietnamese translation. Too bad we can't test all locales
> for similar bugs (or we would need to i18n-ize expected results in the
> test suite too)

What if we allow to run the test suite in non-C locales and skip the
tests that require C_LOCALE_OUTPUT? In non-C locales, we won't set
C_LOCALE_OUTPUT prerequisite. This allows to test a localized git with
~90% of the test suite. Would it work?
-- 
Duy