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Re: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1 (needs GTG)
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> ?I didn't check the application's functionality.
>
> Right. ?Unfortunately there's no fast or easy way to do that. ?You have to run a
> command that takes longer than your idle sleep timer, for example, and check
> that the machine doesn't go to sleep. ?I have done that and verified that each
> of the options works as described, at least on my Windows 7 laptop. ?But as I
> describe in the man page, it's just hard to completely stop a host from going to
> sleep, so it's always going to be hard to completely test that nosleep is
> working as intended.
> Maybe in time I can develop a proper test suite, but it will always be a bit
> labor-intensive.
I would like to see a test with simple command lines without checking
the nosleep behavior. Just to check if can correctly pass the command
with options with proper quoting.
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