Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 28 Sep 2006 at 02:56AM, Roland Mainz wrote: [snip] > As to the actual value of this: in a slight modification to your > scenario above: I wouldn't want Sun service personnel (or whoever) to > tell a user to run the ksh93 test suite before helping them with a ksh > problem. As for your scenario: A user who saw a test case failure would > probably call support and claim that something was broken. A user who > was seeing a failure (lets say a ksh core dump) but a successful test > suite run would probably still call for help.
One of the motivations for shipping the test suite is simply that we ship ksh93s- alpha and that the ksh93 code hit a couple of issues with the compiler in the past. If something goes wrong it may be a good idea to have a way to run the test suite to figure out whether ksh93, the compiler or the underlying environment (like libc) are screwed-up or something else is wrong. > > And there should be something like "examples" and/or a "technology demo" > > in /usr/demo/ksh/ which people can use to get some > > ideas/impressions/hints how scripts could use the new lanuguage > > features... > > I think it's fine to have stuff in /usr/demo. More projects should add > things there. I guess the question is whether the test suite is > instructive to users trying to learn. It may well be-- I haven't looked > at it. I could add more stuff - the question is whether gatekeepers will actually allow such additions which go beyond the usual "hello world" things... for example somewhere I have a RSS reader floating around (which shows some interesting stuff like a SAX-like XML parser, ksh93's networking API, callbacks, name references etc.) ... it depends how the rules look like (most of our stuff may be completely offtopic (like giant scripts to do postprocessing of bioinformatic data) but there are smaller things which may be interesting...) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
