On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. From your response I'm not sure if these tests are "supposed" to fail > (there are test suites that have tests like that) or they are supposed to > succeed but there are bugs in the parser or other code that cause them to > fail. Can you clarify?
They're supposed to pass, in theory, but never have. Someone wrote the tests and the expected output at some point as a sort of to-do list. I don't know why we keep them, since they just confuse everything and make life difficult. (Using the --record and --compare options helps, but they're not that convenient.) All of them would require monkeying around with the parser that nobody's willing to do, since the parser is a hideous mess that no one understands or wants to deal with unless absolutely necessary. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
