everybody in this thread is reacting like you are about to remove the built in mocking. The idea was to deprecate it, something like
"if you use the build in mocking right now, fine. If you start a new project dont use it" One thing is clear, mocha is much nicer than the integrated mocking, nicer syntax, better errormessages, better everything. The rspec mocking framework could never compete with mocha or flexmock on its own. At the time it was created there were good reasons for that, just like there are good reasons to deprecate it now. No one should be forced to migrate an old project over to new mocks, but thats not what we are talking about. Maybe you should just keep the built in mocking, but recommend mocha for new projects, and start using mocha for the samples and generated specs. I recognize that some people like flexmock better, but having one recommended framework would make it much easier for people to get started. (It will almost feel like mocha was built in :P) It really feels strange to hear these complains about rspec not having everything built in, because the main complain for me and others about rspec was always that its too big and has its own mocking that you have to use. (This is fixed now and rspec plays very nice with mocha, great) regards christoph On 9/3/07, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've talked this over w/ a couple of the other committers and we've > decided that we will NOT be deprecating the mock framework, at least > for the foreseeable future. If/when we do, it will happen with plenty > of notice and a clear, painless (as much as is possible) upgrade path. > > To be clear: this decision is purely pragmatic. Benefits of the > existing framework cited in this thread are significant (one-stop > shop, generated specs for the rails plugin, etc). And the amount of > work it would take to do it right (backwards compatibility, easy > upgrade path, support for multiple external frameworks, etc) far > exceeds the perceived cost of maintaining the existing framework. > > Cheers, > David > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
