* James Holderness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-25 22:15]: > The aggregator developers are actively hostile towards such > tests.
Really? I can only think of counterexamples, though my sample is admittedly tiny. Who are the hostile ones? Personally, as someone who has written patches for an aggregator and is flirting with the idea of building one, I would be very glad to have a defined target to aim at instead of just eyeballing the overlap between the spec and the code. What sort of motivation would compel a developer to be hostile toward tests? > Feed producers probably find informational tests more helpful > than conformance tests. But they are the ones who stand to gain from consistent and complete implementation of the standard, in the long term. In any case, can’t we even rally four or five people from the WG who care enough about the spec to want to do something likely to increase the chance of good implementations? Where are those who participated in the interminable flamewars brought on by every rathole that lay on the way to RFC4287? Have they stopped caring now, or was all that vitriol just bikeshed painting after all? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
