Include test/VFSTests.js in buildless branch?

[LoneRifle]

Hello everyone,

I'm in the middle of porting sqlite-s3vfs - a Python VFS written by @uktrade - to TypeScript for wa-sqlite. This is a VFS that uses S3 as the persistent store, and I feel that a TypeScript port would unlock very interesting usecases. In particular, serverless functions that can only be written in JavaScript/TypeScript and not have native modules (eg. Netlify Functions) stand to benefit, since they can now use S3-compatible stores as a cloud-hosted relational database.

I would love to make use of test/VFSTests.js to verify the behaviour of what I've made, as would many other authors of third-party VFSes.

@rhashimoto - would you be happy to add the test suite as part of your build artefacts or somehow make it available? Would love to hear what you think!

[rhashimoto]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for. Since VFSTests.js already exists on the buildless branch I think it's simply adding the test file(s) to the files section of package.json, is that right? If yes, I'd be happy to do that. If no, perhaps you could help me understand the issue better.

Off-topic, I noticed that you chose the MIT license for your VFS project, but I would caution you that I don't think that a wa-sqlite VFS would qualify for MIT licensing since the default wa-sqlite license is GPL. This is a complicated question that ultimately can only be decided by a court ruling, but my reading of the FSF's opinions is escaping the GPL here is borderline at best.

[LoneRifle]

Apologies, should have been more precise in my wording; yes, if you could add the file in question to the files manifest, I would be grateful. I'll change my license to be in-line with yours!

[rhashimoto]

Done. Be aware that you might need to increase the jasmine timeout (e.g. like this) for a slower VFS. The contention test, which attempts to exercise concurrent access with 8 connections, might be particularly slow.

[twoxfh]

Curious, my understanding is the application which uses wa-sqlite has to be GPL also. Does that mean the UK government has opensourced the application that uses wa-sqlite and the vfs addition? If so, any link?

[LoneRifle]

The UK Government has not used wa-sqlite at all =) what they have published is a VFS written in Python for APSW, a sqlite integration for Python