[p2-dev] Publisher integration testing

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon, Ben and I spent some time together looking at integration issues 
around the publisher.  We found a couple problems and I have addressed 
all except the one mentioned below. 

- The extension location tests are still having some trouble with the 
correspondance between the artifact and metadata repos.  I need to talk 
to someone (Simon?) about that as my brain is full.

Along the way I did some test clean up and implemented some improved 
caching for the repository listener.  Simon has some performance tests 
so it is hard to say what the improvement is but in theory there should 
be at most 4 writes for each poll.  For each of the metadata and 
artifact repos there should be one for removes and one for adds.  We 
will fall short of that for the artifact repo as it does not have bulk 
remove API.  I entered a bug for that.

I'll do some more work on the tests tomorrow and we will get the 
publisher test suite in the CVS repo by the end of the week. 

Thanks Simon for your continuing help.
Jeff