Laurent: You make a good point. In fact, I just may hike over to sourceforge and make a project involving a test suite for C# and .NET, assuming such a thing doesn't already exist. I'm wondering if it would be best to develop such a thing independently from mono, or together with it though.
-- Sam Kennedy On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Laurent de Segur wrote: > Sam, > > Thanks for your reply. I am curious to know what you mean by "support from > those higher up." In short, I am wondering what could stop you from > developing a solution to do conformance testing in mono (or any sort of > tools for that matter), especially if you enjoy doing such a task. I, for > one, can only see a benefit for having such a tool as probably would do > anyone involved with the project. Thanks for clarifying. > > LdS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Laurent de Segur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:15 PM > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Help wanted: MCS compiler tests > > > > Any big production should include some sort of quality control mechanism. > > You asked if I would interested to join a project as a volunteer for the > > sole purpose of this task (testing compatibility). Sure, if I had any > > support from those higher up, I would be glad to volunteer for this > > purpose. > > > > -- > > Sam Kennedy > > > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > > > Isn't it one of the benefits of OSS trying to avoid this type of > (expensive) > > > overhead? Would you be interested joining a project as a volunteer for > the > > > sole purpose of doing this task? As I understand things right now, > eveyone > > > contributes finding compliance problems as well as adding new feature in > the > > > code pool. Building an automated test conformance suite would be a nice > > > thing to have though. Basically what JCK is to Java would be really > sweet. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
