"widely supported scripting language" for make test (was ITS#5809)

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Redirected this to openldap-devel list.

ando@sys-net.it wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > > I'm hitting an issue like this in some of the replication tests I'm
> > > currently performing.  For this purpose, I think we could hack
> > > ldapsearch (or add a new prog, or use a script on ldapsearch output)
> > > that sorts entries content attribute-wise and, within each attribute,
> > > value-wise.  Something like "sort" applied entry-wise after unwrapping
> > > line folding, optionally case-insensitive would probably suffice.
> > I have a script somewhere from Matt Backes @ Symas that sorts LDIF 
> > files. It was useful for seeing if it made any difference in slapadd (it 
> > didn't).
>
> Well, if it were distributable, and written in a widely supported 
> scripting language, it would be quite useful...

What do you consider a "widely supported scripting language"?

During some discussions about the test suite I felt that having a more 
powerful scripting language would help dealing with some of the problems 
in a more elegant way.

Ciao, Michael.