On 24.11.2016 16:41, Alan Bateman wrote:
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to Alan and Sander:
setting command line arguments or using a build tool to fiddle them
for you is exactly what we do not want here! We want fidelity between
the compile time configuration and the runtime configuration. Having
to play with -Xpatch at runtime is conceptually exactly like setting
the classpath. I don't want to explain to the Java devs that we have
fidelity between compile-time and runtime on source code but not on
test code.
I hope in time that there will be support from the tools, plugins, test
runners ... so that regular developers don't need to be concerned with
this.
I don't understand why it is better if a tool does -Xpatch, than when I
do it myself. Anything else will require several classes be loaded that
will change how the modules work and influence the tests with their
present and their dependencies
bye Jochen
