Using python-pexpect...

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:12:37AM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi Jelmer,
> 
> >> I'd like to use python-pexpect for some tests,
> >> it seems much more powerful than our texpect tool.
> >>
> >> Could you prepare the third_party import for me?
> > Sure. What's the upstream URL?
> 
> See https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect

Cool, I'll set it up today or tomorrow.

> I hope the license http://opensource.org/licenses/isc-license.txt
> is fine for us.

It appears to be compatible with the GPL, and we interact with other
ISC-licensed stuff as well I think (bind?).

> The current versions seem to require Python 2.6,
> would that be ok for things used in make test?
Yep. We already rely on >= 2.6 for Python in a number of places.

Cheers,

Jelmer