baz-import test requires 'testresources'

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Dec 2005, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> The baz-import test suite tries to import something called "testresources".
> This is a module/package that I don't have installed on my system. Is it
> a 3rd party toolset that is available?
> I tried looking in Ubuntu Synaptic, and I didn't find anything called
> "testresources".
> 
> I want to work on writing a test case for my "--continue-on-errors"
> flag, but as it stands I can't run the test suite.

I think this is Robert's module. 

> Also, I need a workaround for the current baz-import using "Arch:" as
> the revision identifier prefix. I really want to switch one of my
> repositories from Arch to bzr, but I have to be able to check it out on
> Windows.
> I was thinking about just hacking the code to use "Arch-" instead, and
> just do a one-time conversion and not worry about it in the future. But
> I would really prefer to do the "correct" thing.
> 
> Though as a side note, if we just decide to prohibit non-filesystem safe
> revision identifiers (or encode them on disk), I realized that this
> probably could be done outside of "bzr upgrade". We no longer keep track
> of revision sha1's (and we never look at the inventory sha1 either,
> maybe we do in 'bzr check'). But anyway, a simple script that goes
> through all of the revision store and renames the files, and renames the
> internal identifiers should be enough.
> It probably could be done with a simple regex substitution, since at
> present the revision identifier is not present in any hashes. (It would
> be present in the .sig file, but as of yet, that isn't really used).

Well, I would have preferred to just allocate IDs that used a safe
subset of ascii, but the weight of opinion is that they should be
escaped in the storage layer.  That seems to suggest we need a format
upgrade where in the new format they're written out escaped.

-- 
Martin
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