<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 30 Oct 2005, at 10:27, sean finney wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">on a related note, i believe that providing this feature also provides</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">a much better/thorough way to test the tcp-based plugins.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>i don't know</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">much about how the test suite works, but it wouldn't be too hard to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">write a test program that creates a unix domain socket and spoke</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the proper things to the plugins...</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Interesting idea. The local daemon would accept requests as if it was over the network and respond accordingly. However, it will probably mean that the local daemon will end up looking like the actual service, in which case we should just use an actual service on the internet to run against.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've been thinking that we need to enhance the testcases and get more continuous builds. Have spoken to Peter Bray about this, but there's not much movement, so I'm interested in getting a Tinderbox setup for this. Will work on this over the next few weeks.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ton</DIV></BODY></HTML>