Re: wsdl test files and licensing

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> I wasn't sure if these documents can be distributed at all, so I kept
>>> the test suite private, instead of adding it to the public repository
>>> which hosts soap-client.el.
>>
>> That's perfectly smart, but it would be nice if we could get a public
>> test suite together.  And that will more likely than not requiring
>> mailing the respective people for disclaimers and/or recreating relevant
>> stuff from scratch when the respective permissions cannot be acquired.
>
> Well, the situation is even a little bit more complicate. Most of the
> SOAP servers offer their wsdl files at a well known url(*). I believe,
> the soap-client test suite keeps the wsdl files locally for being able
> to run offline tests, and also for consistency (results might change
> when the wsdl changes).
>
> In order to circumvent the license problem, one could run the tests
> using wsdl files from their origin, downloading from the server.

Test suites need to work offline, and they need to be reproducible.
I don't see that we get that easily with non-included material.


-- 
David Kastrup