Re: Perl to Python

On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 05:35:16AM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> Eagle-eyed people may have noticed that I've committed to trunk new, 
> Python-based versions of our old Perl-based support scripts. The goal 
> is to reduce/remove our dependence on Perl in favor of Python for ease 
> of maintenance and portability.

+1, haven't looked, but great idea.

> In parallel I have also been working on a port of the Perl test 
> framework to one based on Python and pytest, with the ultimate goal, 
> hopefully, of pulling in the h2 test suite into that, so we have a 
> single, self-contained test framework.

Holy crap! That would be amazing. Do you plan to merge this into httpd's 
test/ subdirectory, or keep it in a separate repo?

Thanks Jim. :)

Regards, Joe