Re: Perl test framework migrated to https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Ruediger Pluem wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/29/26 10:32 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Per the recent vote, https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests is now a 
> > read/write Git master for the Perl-based test framework. I will set up 
> > some basic .asf.yaml settings now that I've seen it's working.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for taking care. One quick question. The previous Subversion based repository
> has a svn:external on Apache-Test:
> 
> Apache-Test https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/Apache-Test/trunk
> 
> Is Apache-Test no longer needed? Testing worked fine for me with a freshly cloned
> https://github.com/apache/httpd-tests.git which does not have an Apache-Test directory.

Good question... Apache::Test is still needed but was never required in 
./Apache-Test, the test framework will use it if installed as normal 
from CPAN. And it will still use it if you check out a copy in 
./Apache-Test. The main advantage of having the externals set up was 
that we could depend on changes to Apache::Test which haven't made it to 
a CPAN release.

We could ask the Perl PMC to have Apache-Test mirrored to git and then 
import it again via .gitmodules to get an equivalent setup.

Regards, Joe