Re: [gnome-love] Zenity Regression Testing....

[Sivan Green <sivan piware de>]

Hi,

 Will it be good to do that as a starting point for using python? Do 
you think python would serve as a good testing tool wrt to zenity?

Sivan

Glynn Foster wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I've just commit back a patch to CVS HEAD from the awesome Lucas Rocha
> to add GOption support for zenity. GOption is an API written by Anders
> Carlsson in glib that completely replaces popt - it's amazingly user
> friendly, check it out!
>
> With this change, I've realized that we desperately need to start
> generating a list of zenity scripts to test - both old and new, so that
> we can always try and preserve compatibility [still need to get my head
> around the differences of forward and backwards compatibility, and which
> one we want to aim for].
>
> Yes, zenity needs a regression suite! So I'm looking for help to
> generate this. Ideally we would need to write reasonably *simple*
> scripts to test all areas of zenity - all dialogs with different command
> line options.
>
> Can you help? If you can, please send me scripts directly, and I'll make
> sure you get the credit for them in the about dialog, and that they get
> added to zenity in CVS. It'll also provide valuable help to perspective
> zenity writers for use in their own scripts!
>
> Feel the zen.
>
> Glynn
>
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