[gentoo-soc] PMS Test Suite, weekly report #7

[gentoo-soc] PMS Test Suite, weekly report #7

[Michał Górny]

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Hello, all.

Short summary: PMS Test Suite is a suite of tools and a test library
to test any of the Gentoo Package Managers for compliance against
the Package Manager Specification.

The project is running ahead of schedule.

User-perspective news:
- some docs on the test library format,
- paludis support,
- support for running without Manifests (except for paludis),
- now HTML docs are complete and syntax-highlighted,
- ability to pass the test list on the command line,
- D-Bus service config file is installed now as well.

Technical news:
- use of abstract classes,
- removal of setgid() magic -- repos are now world-readable,
- a nice VDB API,
- few fixes, polishes,
- Python module renamed to all-lowercase.

New tests:
- INHERITED variable test,
- RDEPEND=DEPEND fallback test,
- DEFINED_PHASES, PDEPEND,
- WORKDIR fallback test,
- variable scoping test.

The next week I'm having two hard exams, thus I won't be able to spend
that much work on pmsts.

Nearest future should bring:
- more docs,
- a few more simple tests,
- the first versioned release (for testing and feedback),
- re-definition of EAPIs in tests (to distinguish between 'useful'
  and 'supported' EAPIs).

Then I'd like to proceed with eclass tests.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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