Re: [Pan-users] good non-gui test of functionality for homebrew?

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Oct 25, 2023, at 2:10 AM, Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, 22 October 2023 23:08:40 CEST Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> It works well, but the homebrew devs would like to see a test that can be
>> automatically run by the CI system to show that the built & installed but
>> never configured pan application actually works and does something, and
>> does not crash, etc.
>> 
>> I looked through the command line interface to pan, and I have read the
>> source code, but I haven’t been able to come up with something satisfactory
>> that would fulfill this “proof-of-life” need.
>> 
>> Can you help me come up with something?
> 
> Is network accessible during these tests ? 
> 
> If yes, you might try to download and article from gmane server.
> 



Network is available, thanks.

The download will fail as no news servers have been configured at that point in 
time...

Would there be way to make the news server registration happen by copying in a 
pre-configured file configuration perhaps? 


Ken