[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] commit: test: add an automatic test for the telnet interface ( Rémi Duraffort )

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Mon,  1 Nov 2010 11:12:17 +0100 (CET), git at videolan.org wrote:
> vlc | branch: master | Rémi Duraffort <ivoire at videolan.org> | Mon Nov  1
> 11:09:24 2010 +0100| [7b814718518673692a4db2472e3569162e056097] |
> committer: Rémi Duraffort 
> 
> test: add an automatic test for the telnet interface
> 
> Some important things:
>  * the test is deactivated by default as it needed netcat. To activate it
> you just need to add check_SCRIPTS to the TESTS variable (I won't do it
> unless we think that netcat is present on every hosts that run the make
> check?)

This is really tricky. netcat can have different names (nc, nc6,
netcat...). Also, there may be something else running on the port,
including another VLC instance.

Eventually, it all comes down to the RC/telnet unification. We really
should have a clean separation between the command transport channel, and
the command parser.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
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