Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] travis-ci: disable GIT_TEST_HTTPD for macOS

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:

> > From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
> > 
> > TravisCI changed their default macOS image from 10.10 to 10.11 [1].
> > Unfortunately the HTTPD tests do not run out of the box using the
> > pre-installed Apache web server anymore. Therefore we enable these
> > tests only for Linux and disable them for macOS.
> [...]
> Hi Junio,
> 
> the patch above is one of two patches to make TravisCI pass, again.
> Could you queue it?

I don't really mind disabling tests if they don't run on a platform. But
the more interesting question to me is: why don't they run any more? Is
there some config tweak needed, or is it an insurmountable problem?

Using Apache in the tests has been the source of frequent portability
problems and configuration headaches. I do wonder if we'd be better off
using some small special-purpose web server (even a short perl script
written around HTTP::Server::Simple or something).

On the other hand, testing against Apache approximates a more real-world
case, which has value. It might be nice if our tests supported multiple
web servers, but that would mean duplicating the config for each
manually.

-Peff