RE: xvfb issue for lsb-vsw4

"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:41:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Message-ID <A06801158AE07847B27A52C1A074BC1D093150DE@fmsmsx404.amr.corp.intel.com>
>Hi cannot find a clear followup on this, so my question is:
>The problems 85 thrugh 87 have been rejectd. Does this mean that
>we decided to allow implementations, which comes without Xvfb or
>with an old/not working one, to use another Xvfb implementation?
>Or how should this be resolved?
>I know for the future we plan to ship our own Xvfb with the test
>suite, but as far as I can see we don't do that today.

Yes, as Andrew said, the position is:

- we need the tests to show conforming behavior of the libraries
- in order to make sense, some tests need to have a server running
- a server is not part of the LSB requirements
- it's far harder to control the setup of a standard server
  than Xvfb (and there may be impacts based on underlying graphics
  hardware and other attached devices)
- so we expect Xvfb to be available to start, but this is not
  a requirement of the system under test but rather of the
  test suite.  I think we even supply an Xvfb now.
- from the runtime's viewpoint, it doesn't matter which Xvfb
  you use, as long as it allows you to complete the tests.