Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] travis-ci: disable GIT_TEST_HTTPD for macOS

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2016, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1syj6mvq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161110161012.jube4bwbww2wa2ew@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> IMHO, the value in the http tests is not testing the server side, but
> the client side. Without being able to set up a dummy HTTP server, we do
> not have any way to exercise the client side of git-over-http at all.
> And people on macOS _do_ use that. :)

Amen to that.

I however do not know what the universally available simplest dummy HTTP server would be. There probably are better alternative than Apache with distro-customized ways of configuration that we have to adjust.

A solution around HTTP::Server::Simple sounds attractive but is it a realistic alternative or too much effort required? I dunno.