I think it is great that you two have reached a consensus. If Alex can spend the time improving the tests that Leslie started along the lines that he mentioned, I think that would be good progress for Elephant.
Thanks, gentlemen...each of these improvements makes Elephant a little more robust. On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:23 +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > That's fine by me. > > > > as i have ideas how to "improve" concurrent test suite, probably it > would be > > better if i'll just take over the suite and implement them. however, > i'm > > open about other ideas about future of this test suite :). > > Go ahead and take it, you seem to be more adamant about it than me :) > As you have noticed, it's quite hackish ATM. > > > > also i have a question unrelated to test suite: it says me that > > thread-alive-p used in reap-orphaned-connections in db-postmodern is > not > > defined. where should this function come from, newer version of > bordeax > > threads (perhaps i have an outdated package)? > > I have 0.2.2 here. The API docs have it, too, albeit in a section > accompanied > by this note: > > "The following functions may be provided for debugging purposes, but > are not advised to > be called from normal user code." > > Grepping through the source shows that it's defined for every > supported > implementation except MCL and Corman CL. > > Leslie > _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
