Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-kolab: on (Unit) testing again

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 15:54 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Within our project it has been brought up that POSIX shell scripts might be a 
> good choice in order to keep a low profile depencency-wise. Personally, I 
> would prefer a higher-level scripting language which will offer more facility 
> (esp. when it comes to mocking certain services or other complex things which 
> will be a little bit painful to do in shell scripts). Nonetheless, I can 
> perfectly understand the reasons if one prefers POSIX shell or something the 
> like.

I think Python would be the most palatable choice for GNOME software.
And you should be able to rig up a mock service pretty easily with the
libraries it provides.