Sharness tests

[daviddias]

In order to improve the quality and robustness of js-ipfs, it is pretty important to reuse the SHarness testing infrastructure against the js-ipfs http-api.

@chriscool could you help us with that? I think the best first step is to have the go-ipfs cli point at the js-ipfs http-api and test the endpoints that js-ipfs already implements (i.e: object, block, bitswap, add, cat, get). We can do that by pulling go-ipfs as a devdependency and run it in CI

[chriscool]

@diasdavid yeah I started to take a look at that during the Lisbon workshop, but there were a lot of problems, startin with jsipfs version.
I will take another look soon.

[daviddias]

I was more thinking in the lines of using go-ipfs cli to point to js-ipfs http api (ipfs --api='') so that we can tell that both behave the same way, avoiding to have to write the entire CLI.

[daviddias]

@chriscool any update about this?

[chriscool]

@diasdavid I had a vacation and I am at the LinuxCon in Toronto now until next Monday.
I will try to take a look at it soon. Or maybe we should plan to discuss it, maybe on IRC, at the end of next week.

[daviddias]

@chriscool how are things? Can we look into this again? jsipfs is now interopable with go-ipfs (so we can have tests that use both at the same time) and the CLI is getting the same features + interface :)

[chriscool]

@diasdavid great that it's now interoperable! Could we discuss it and try to do something tomorrow morning at around 9 am CEST time or are you available now?

[daviddias]

@chriscool I'm currently in NYC, so 9am CEST would be 4am for me. Can we make it in your afternoon?

[chriscool]

@diasdavid then I think 9pm CEST is better for me. That would be 4pm for you.
Is it ok for you?

[chriscool]

@diasdavid actually 9pm CEST is not possible today for me. I forgot that I had planned to meet friends. But it's possible tomorrow (Thursday September 15). Would that work for you?

[daviddias]

@chriscool Thank you for handling this, I see you have opened the PR's, let's follow on those ones:

• test: sharness - add t0040-add-and-cat.sh failing tests #522
• sharness: add t0015-basic-sh-functions.sh #521
• sharness: add t0022-init-default.sh #520
• sharness: add t0020-init.sh #519
• sharness: t0010- jsipfs version #518