It is IPv6 networking software. Any test that I write that does anything non-trivial with it is going to be fragile and depend on the target computers' state, which is probably undesirable. Does the homebrew project have test guidelines somewhere? I have pretty strong feelings about how tests should never go out over the network...

> On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:22 AM, Mike McQuaid <notifications@github.com> wrote:
> 
> In Library/Formula/netcat6.rb:
> 
> > @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> > +require 'formula'
> > +
> > +class Netcat6 < Formula
> > +  homepage 'http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/netcat6.html'
> > +  url 'http://ftp.deepspace6.net/pub/ds6/sources/nc6/nc6-1.0.tar.gz'
> > +  # upstream is currently down, so we'll just, uh, borrow debian's
> > +  mirror 'http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nc6/nc6_1.0.orig.tar.gz'
> > +  sha1 '50b1a3f7bfa610a2016727e5741791ad3a88bd07'
> > +
> > +  def install
> > +    system "./configure", "--disable-dependency-tracking",
> > +                          "--prefix=#{prefix}",
> > +                          "--mandir=#{man}"
> > +    system "make install"
> > +  end
> Sorry, can you add one which actually tests it rather than just outputting the version?
> 
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