On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Stephen White <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know about other organizations, but from Apple's point of view, it's 
> rare that we'd want to publicly promise that we'll never implement something. 
> We'd just want to document that we haven't implemented the feature yet, and 
> thus some tests are inapplicable. So NEVERFIX would be something we'd be even 
> more reluctant to apply. We would not even want to mark the difference 
> between "we haven't enabled this feature yet, but probably will very soon" 
> and "we have no plans to ever implement the feature unless something 
> changes", as that would be communicating information about future releases.
> 
> I don't know of the intent of SKIP, but maybe it is ok for this purpose. I 
> would expect it to be used for tests that are temporarily skipped due to 
> bugs, based on the name, which seems different to me from "this functionality 
> is not implemented in this port, rendering the test inapplicable".
> 
> How about NOTIMPL?
> 
> Let's not use an arbitrary abbreviation like IMPL. I would strictly prefer 
> NOTIMPLEMENTED or NOT_IMPLEMENTED or NotImplemented over NOTIMPL, NOT_IMPL, 
> or NotImpl.
> 

NOT_IMPLEMENTED, or something similar like FEATURE_MISSING, might be good.

Cheers,
Maciej

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