[guido@zope.com: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: WebDAV in python 2.2?] (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:43:10 -0500

"Guido" == Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com> writes:

>> Tests are skipped because imports fail.  Seems reasonable to me that
>> some tests might be skipped if the network isn't up.  It shouldn't be
>> difficult to test if test.webdav.org is reachable and skip the davlib
>> test if it's not.

Guido> Sure, but only if we absolutely cannot test that module without
Guido> reaching out over the net.

I thought that was the whole idea of this thread. There are apparently a couple fully functional dav servers out there. In the short-term, I think it would be better to write a test that relies on them than having to write a server - no matter how bare bones it is - just to perform some tests of a client-side library.

who's-going-to-test-the-test-server?-ly y'rs,

Skip