Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-27 Thread Sascha Brawer
graydon hoare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:40:18 -0500: [many proposals for testing] IMHO, most proposals sound very convincing. - tests can be added inline with a source file, or right next door in a similarly-named class or package. I guess my point is I'd

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-26 Thread graydon hoare
Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - tests can be added inline with a source file, or right next door in a similarly-named class or package. only if you want mauve to have GNU Classpath specific features. I guess my point is I'd like to lower, as far as possible, the cost

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-25 Thread graydon hoare
Sascha Brawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, please write more test cases. I agree that it is boring, dumb, and taxing; testing slows down development. But it's also the most reliable way to make sure that code really works. If anyone needs to change our code in five years, they'll want to

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-25 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Graydon, graydon hoare wrote: Sascha Brawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, please write more test cases. I agree that it is boring, dumb, and taxing; testing slows down development. But it's also the most reliable way to make sure that code really works. If anyone needs to change our code

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 17:38, Patrik Reali wrote: I could host the Classpath documentation on the Jaos site, but only as a temporary solution. That would be very nice. It would (hopefully) be temporary. But I want to have something up and running before bothering the GNU system admins for a

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Tromey
graydon == graydon hoare [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This discussion should probably take place on mauve-discuss... graydon - mauve should be arranged such that: graydon [ ... great stuff ... ] I think any improvements to Mauve are to be welcomed, and anybody willing to put effort into

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 20:15, Tom Tromey wrote: I could set things up to post the pages to gcc.gnu.org nightly, just like we do for the classpath comparison. This could be expedited if somebody sent a simple script to generate the pages. Is gjdoc ready for this sort of work? Yes,

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-24 Thread Brian Jones
Tom Tromey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Would someone be willing to try to set that up? Mark Could someone host the auto-generated documentation for now? Last time I ran javadoc on classpath, I got tons and tons of errors. Do we still get that? I could set things up to post the pages

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 18:21, Sascha Brawer wrote: having read quite a bit of Classpath code, I'd like to express two wishes. First, please write more test cases. [..] Second, please write understandable documentation [...] In other words, I think that we really need to improve the

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 13:42, Patrik Reali wrote: I completely agree and support your wishes! In fact, it would be nice if the whole classpath and its documentation (javadoc) would be rebuilt on a regular base and offered through the website. It has to be hosted on something different then

Re: Tests, Documentation

2003-11-23 Thread Tom Tromey
Mark Would someone be willing to try to set that up? Mark Could someone host the auto-generated documentation for now? Last time I ran javadoc on classpath, I got tons and tons of errors. Do we still get that? I could set things up to post the pages to gcc.gnu.org nightly, just like we do for