Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 0/2] test: replace gtester with a TAP driver

[Eric Blake]

On 11/29/18 11:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> gtester is deprecated by upstream glib and it does not support tests
> that call g_test_skip in some glib stable releases.
>
> glib suggests instead using Automake's TAP support.  We do not support
> Automake, but we can copy the code that beautifies the TAP output and
> use it.  I chose to use the Perl copy rather than the shell/awk one,
> in order to reuse Perl's TAP parsing package, but I'm open to suggestions
> about which language to use.

I'm less familiar with the TAP protocol than I'd like to admit, but I 
did find:

https://blog.gtk.org/2018/07/11/news-from-glib-2-58/

which corroborates your claim that switching to Automake's TAP parser is 
indeed a recommended approach to avoid the now-deprecated gtester.

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