Jason Zhao wrote: > Hi, Dave, > > Dave Miner wrote: >> Jason Zhao wrote: >>> Hi, Jan and William, >>> >>> As you know, our Beijing Team is developing test suites for libtd, libti >>> and others. We are testing the libraries by the test drivers you are >>> developing, thanks for the test drivers since they help us a lot when >>> testing the libraries. >>> >>> Right now, the test suites are closed to finish development phase, and >>> we will request to put them to STC gate, or moreover, to Open Source >>> them. >>> But we meet with an issue that all the test drivers(test_td, tdmgtst, ti >>> test drivers and more...) could only be used by building them first from >>> slim_source gate in "hg.opensolaris.org/hg/caiman/slim_source". As you >>> know, building the required test drivers is not part of test >>> execution, so >>> we expect to the test suites are able to get the test drivers directly >>> when running them. It will be better that we can get or download >>> them, there >>> are advantages if the test drivers could be open or put in download >>> center. >>> >>> As following: >>> 1. The test suites could dynamically grep the binaries as free and test >>> them. >>> 2. The test suite could test latest libraries and binaries in this way. >>> >>> We are not sure if you are planning to put the binary externally(E.g., >>> download >>> center or OpenSolaris). If you will, that will be great. >>> >>> Please tell us your comments. >>> >> >> Jason, please file a bug requesting that these binaries be placed in a >> package (probably a new, test-specific package). These are already >> open, so that's not a problem, they just need to be delivered in >> binary form to you, and a package is the way to do that. > Thank you, Dave. > > It is really great, I will file a bug to request the binaries for > (libtd, libti, and likely liborchestrator) in Bugzilla of OpenSolaris. > > Could you tell me when the open binaries could be integrated into the > packages and external users could reach them after I file that bug? >
As soon as somebody can pick it up and work on it. Probably two weeks to a month. Dave
