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

On 4/29/26 11:02 AM, Joe Orton wrote:
> 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 

Good point. I searched again and found out that I had PERL5LIB set in my environment pointing to
a quite old copy of Apache-Test. Hence it worked even without the directory in place.

> 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.

+1. It looks like they only have mod_perl mirrored.

Regards

Rüdiger