On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > > Mark: if you're reading this, I wanted to thank you for all the hard work > > if you've put into setting up the Perl testing infrastructure. It had > some > > really cool features, but I think that our preference for simpler tests > > and simpler infrastructure outweighs our desire for features. The recent > > licensing issues and Windows buildbot issues were basically just piling > on > > that extra bit of motivation to go ahead and make this change. Anyway, > > thanks again! I hope to see lots of nice shell tests from you (and hey > > hopefully some darcs code?) in the future. > > I appreciate that David let me write tests in Perl in the first place. > > I think that was a strategic move, because it allowed someone to contribute > and > help the project who otherwise wouldn't and increased the quality of the > project at that time. Thanks Mark. I speculate that at that time no one foresaw the the reasons to switch that we have now. I also understand that new concerns are coming up now, and I appreciate the > benefits of simplicity. I also respect that the current test suite > maintainers > may have different choices about the best tools to use, and I feel now like > David may have felt at that the time, that the people actually doing the > work > should have some amount of freedom in how they implement the solution. Speaking of which...I think Zooko makes a really wise point when he recommends our tests be written in the same language we use, Haskell. The benefit is that we already require a Haskell compiler. This would certainly help address the test suite portability issues we have. But, I guess the big reasons to not do that are: 1) It's a lot of work to convert all the tests to a new language. 2) It's really easy to tell our .sh scripts are doing in terms of real commands to reproduce it. Then again, maybe the easier thing is to find a different shell for using on windows. Maybe there is a Haskell based bash-ism tolerant shell we could recommend for windows testers. Overall, I'm glad the project is continuing to move forward, and I thank > those > who have helped in the past, and who continue to carry on the work. Yes. Progress is nice, and every time a test catches a bug I just want to thank each and every test contributor. It's really wonderful to have a test suite. Thanks, Jason
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