Re: [PATCH 1/3] t5004: test ZIP archives with many entries

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:29 AM, "René Scharfe" [off-list ref] wrote:

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I suspected that zipinfo's output might be formatted differently on
different platforms and tried to guard against it by checking for the
number zero there. Git's ZIP file creation is platform independent
(modulo bugs), so having a test run at least somewhere should
suffice. In theory.

We could add support for the one-line-summary variant on OS X easily,
though.

Probably, although it's looking like testing on Mac OS X won't be
fruitful (see below).

Can we move this topic forward by introducing a new prerequisite
ZIPINFO and used at the beginning of these tests (make it a lazy
prereq)?  Run zipinfo on a trivial archive and see if its output is
something we recognize to decide if the platform supports that
ZIPINFO prerequisite and do this test only on them.

After all, what _is_ being tested, i.e. our archive creation, would
not change across platforms, so having a test that runs on a known
subset of platforms is better than not having anything at all.

Thanks.