This seems reasonable to me. Justin, do you have any concerns with introducing 
a dependency in jqUnit on our core framework?



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Michelle D'Souza
Senior Inclusive Developer
Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University




On 2013-01-17, at 4:18 PM, Antranig Basman wrote:

> Long ago (perhaps even as early as 2006) we embarked on an XUnit-style 
> wrapper for the QUnit testing framework which has since come to be managed by 
> the jQuery community. At the time, this was on the basis of increased 
> familiarity by Java and C++ developers with the XUnit-style - for better or 
> worse, we have accumulated a huge codebase of tests expressed in this style, 
> as well as a number of utilities which we find useful in our community (for 
> example, for comparing trees of Fluid Renderer components).
> 
> As part of the rationalisation work required by 
> http://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-77 and 
> http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-4886 it was found to simplify the 
> code loading idiom considerably of our jqUnit and associated platform support 
> libraries in the browser and node.js environments to give it a dependence on 
> our core framework file Fluid.js. Over the years, the position of jqUnit has 
> become progressively clearer as something we could not expect to reasonably 
> offer or support to groups outside the Fluid community - but I am sending 
> this mail to check on consensus for this point - the pull requests in 
> question are under review now, and so this de facto decision could be 
> reversed if we decided that we really wanted to prepare and support jqUnit as 
> something of wider interest outside Fluid.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antranig
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