On 2 Aug 2011, at 09:44, Fred Kiefer wrote: > Hi David, > > you don't seem to get the point. I don't have to tell you that a change the > contains the word "fix" is just as likely to break something as if it doesn't > contain that word. > And even if these fixes where 100% correct, we still need to make sure that > none of the other changes has any effect outside the proper target > environment.
I agree. > I would suggest that we start a code freeze for GNUstep base on the next > weekend. This gives people some time (although rather little) to push in > features that they really want to see in the next release. > Then we have two weeks of code freeze during which only changes to the test > are allowed, plus bug fixes that are supported by tests. NO new features > during that time, not even tiny ones. > After that a release would be fine for me. Sounds good to me. > Could we agree on that schedule? I will try to get some response from Richard > on this. > > As tests go, I just run the base tests and had quite a few failing for me: > > 6248 Passed tests > 13 Dashed hopes > 8 Skipped sets > 5 Failed tests > 2 Failed files > 1 Failed build > > I would prefer to see skipped tests and dashed hopes here. A failing test > always should mean that my system is broken and unusable in some sense, for > example because my objc runtime isn't thread safe. But I don't want to see a > failed test because I don't have ICU installed. In that case we should report > a skipped test. Of course this will mean that some features of GNUstep base > aren't available on my system, but basically GNUstep is still usable. > The failed tests are: > base/NSMapTable/weak.m > base/NSHashTable/weak.m These are expected failures - the tests are actually wrong (I based them on common sense, not on the crazy things that OS X actually does) and I need to revert some things. > base/NSString/regex.m It should be relatively easy to turn this one into a dashed hope - I'll fix these three tomorrow. As with the rest of the NSRegularExpression tests, it depends on ICU, so we should be skipping it for you. > base/NSJSONSerialization/json.m > > I will look into the last one that fails to compile without C99 and add an > autorelease pool to the regex test. Could you please make the first three > tests dashed hopes? Will do. David -- Sent from my STANTEC-ZEBRA _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep