Re: [PATCH 0/4] WIP: git-remote-media wiki namespace support

Antoine Beaupré [off-list ref] writes:

Obviously, doing unit tests against a full MediaWiki instance isn't
exactly trivial.

Not trivial, but doable: there is all the infrastructure to do so in t/:
install-wiki.sh to automatically install Mediawiki, and then a testsuite
that interacts with it.

This has been written under the assumption that the developer had a
lighttpd instance running on localhost, but this can probably be adapted
to run on Travis-CI (install lighttpd & Mediawiki in the install: part,
and run the tests afterwards), so that anyone can run the tests by just
submitting a pull-request to Git-Mediawiki.

If you are to work more on Git-Mediawiki, don't underestimate the
usefullness of the testsuite (for example, Git-Mediawiki was developped
against a prehistoric version of Mediawiki, the testsuite can help
ensuring it still works on the lastest version), nor the fun of playing
with install scripts and CI systems ;-).

Cheers,

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Matthieu Moy
https://matthieu-moy.fr/