dovecot - Sep 2014 - [wishlist] testsuite for sieve scripts, libsievetest

Hi,

I'm writing a test suite with Haskell for my sieve script. - Just to learn 
Haskell. But it might become something usable.

The test suite calls sieve-test and parses the output. So it would of course 
be much simpler for me if the output of sieve-test would be easier to parse 
and if I'd know what output to expect.

And it would be nice, if there would be an easy way to embed libsievetest as a 
C library. I looked into the source and the sieve-test binary does quite a bit 
of setup.

This might be a nice hacking project for a beginner... BTW: It would be nice, 
if I could just 'git clone' dovecot.

Thank you for dovecot!

On 9/22/2014 4:01 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a test suite with Haskell for my sieve script. - Just to
learn
> Haskell. But it might become something usable.
>
> The test suite calls sieve-test and parses the output. So it would of
course
> be much simpler for me if the output of sieve-test would be easier to parse
> and if I'd know what output to expect.
Do you know there is a testsuite written in Sieve itself? Well, anyway,
it is always good when the code is tested more. :)
> And it would be nice, if there would be an easy way to embed libsievetest
as a
> C library. I looked into the source and the sieve-test binary does quite a
bit
> of setup.
There is a libsieve-tools, but that is not installed as a shared
library. I probably won't do anything like this until Dovecot itself
provides proper shared libraries for the core framework. I don't see
that happening any time soon.
> This might be a nice hacking project for a beginner... BTW: It would be
nice,
> if I could just 'git clone' dovecot.
You can do 'hg clone', but yes, some people prefer git.

Regards,

Stephan.