Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] localhost_tests failures

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Divye,

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 08:50, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Wait... OK, I think I see what's happening:
>>
>> 1) test.xml always contains CRLF, even on Linux
>> 2) On Linux, the Python server serves test.xml with CRLF endings intact
>> 3) If we change test.xml to LF-only, we have worse test coverage for
>> line ending independence
>>
>> Is that it?
>
> That's just it. :-)

Cool, thanks :)

I'm still not happy with having the test fail on Windows due to a
known bug in a third party, but now I understand why converting line
endings on test.xml can be problematic.

I think my main concern is that marking the test as an expected
failure makes it useless--if failure is expected, the only way it can
demonstrate a change in behavior is if Python suddenly starts working.

That said, if we're worried about line endings causing trouble,
shouldn't we have targetted tests for that?

Cheers,
- Kim