Proposal: refactor the test suite according to synopsis

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Since the perl6 compiler on Parrot is moving ahead nicely in its new incarnation, it's time for us to start looking at the official test suite again. As a reminder, Pugs is considered the repository for the official test suite at the moment ( http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/t/ ). Having looked at

Re: Proposal: refactor the test suite according to synopsis

2007-12-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:27:14AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : I'm thinking of this organization scheme as primarily a guiding : principle and not something to be strictly applied. For example, : I wouldn't advocate a strict one-to-one correspondence between : subdirectories and major

Re: Proposal: refactor the test suite according to synopsis

2007-12-20 Thread jerry gay
On Dec 20, 2007 9:27 AM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are certainly plenty of organization schemes we could use for this, but one that leaps to my mind is to organize tests based loosely on where the feature is described in the synopses or the camel book (the p5 camel book