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    Create aurweb.spawn for spawing the test server · 8a135005
    Frédéric Mangano-Tarumi authored and Lukas Fleischer's avatar Lukas Fleischer committed
    
    
    This program makes it easier for developers to spawn the PHP server
    since it fetches automatically what it needs from the configuration
    file, rather than having the user explicitly pass arguments to the php
    executable.
    
    When the setup gets more complicated as we introduce Python,
    aurweb.spawn will keep providing the same interface, while under the
    hood it is planned to support running multiple sub-processes.
    
    Its Python interface provides an way for the test suite to spawn the
    test server when it needs to perform HTTP requests to the test server.
    
    The current implementation is somewhat weak as it doesn’t detect when a
    child process dies, but this is not supposed to happen often, and it is
    only meant for aurweb developers.
    
    In the long term, aurweb.spawn will eventually become obsolete, and
    replaced by Docker or Flask’s tools.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Fleischer <lfleischer@archlinux.org>
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