On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 13:54:52 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > These are the kinds of issues that make me wonder if zooko's idea of > writing all the tests in Haskell would be less hassle -- theoretically > then the test code would either be correct on all systems, or none.
I still like David's idea of holding out for a portable shell implementation that can run our tests, like Stephen Hick's shsh http://code.haskell.org/shsh The idea is that we could implement our own cheap and cheerful GNU-ish grep, sed, etc (like the current hspwd). The idea is that we would then gain the portability that we so painfully have to extract from these tests, while retaining the the ease of use that shell tests provide (easy for people to submit test cases, easy for us to write and understand tests, easy for us to copy and paste the instructions into a shell for interactive debugging). Would this be an acceptable solution? Barring that, we could write a wiki page summing up our knowledge on how to write portable shell tests. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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