[Lustre-devel] Language choice for Lustre tests

[Nathan Rutman]

On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:20 AM, "Gearing, Chris" <chris.gearing at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> > Based on the responses so far, it seems that there is a fairly clear preference for Python as a test language, and so I'll propose that Python should be used shorter-term to start replacing test-framework.
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> I don’t think that is the case Nathan, because unless I am mistaken
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> Jacques-Charles, Kilian Cavalotti and if it is a binary choice today my preference is Python (but please see below)
Aurelien - python 2

> Bruce was neutral
> Roman and Colin (after your email) expressed Perl as a choice.
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> So the preference would seem to be for Python, counting by people and organization although obviously it’s a statistically suspect poll.
Indeed.  As I stated before, a poll is not the best way to choose the language; it's just one data point.  But as a) we must choose something to start making any headway toward improvements, and b) bash doesn't meet the requirements, I'm trying to come up with some kind of baseline.  

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> Chris
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> NOTES OF MY VOTE: Given the importance of the topic I believe a much broader piece of analysis needs to be done to select the right language,
I'm just trying to keep things moving from theoretical optimum to practical conclusion.  We feel a need today for much better Lustre testing, and there's a huge pile of work waiting, and so I feel we must move forward.

> also if this is for an existing framework update the tests must all be in bash or all converted to the new language of choice.
Short term the idea would be to translate one of the test suites, for example conf-sanity, to the new language/framework.  The two systems (old and new) would live side-by-side for some period.  New tests should be implemented under the new system (e.g. sanity2).  Other old tests could be converted piecemeal subsequently.


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