[Newcompiler] Re: [v3dot10] Re: testing packages

[Klaus D. Witzel]

Hi Marcus,

in a bit less encrypted form, what is it that I shall ask Ralph to put  
into v3dot10. I only recall some decompiler patch but suppose you meant  
something else, no?

Thank you.

Cheers
Klaus

P.S. new part of my job descriptio: switch discussion threads between the  
newcompiler and the v3dot10 mailing lists :)

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:07:54 +0200, Marcus Denker wrote:

>
> On 09.06.2007, at 11:38, Mathieu Suen wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> There is the test of #ifNil:ifNotNil: but it is comment because it
>> can't be load by the old compiler.
>>
>
> Maybe the compiler change for the old compiler should be in 3.10? I
> am amazed that it is not, actually.
>
> 	Marcus
>
>> 	Mth
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>>
>>> Marcus, Math,
>>>
>>> I'd like to suggest adding NewCompiler to the list of packages
>>> tested against v3dot10. Are there any tests in NewCompiler which
>>> are intentionally not green resp. can be made green?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:27:02 +0200, Ralph Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I've said earlier, I want a system that lets us test packages so
>>>> that we can make sure that when we make a change to the base
>>>> image, we
>>>> don't break anything.  I've built a system for running those
>>>> kinds of
>>>> tests and you can see its results at
>>>> http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/testResults/3.10alpha.7105.html
>>>>
>>>> There are three issues that I'd like to raise.
>>>>
>>>> First, there are lots of failing tests in the base image.  I think
>>>> most of these have to do with the Multiligual bugs that we
>>>> fixed.  If
>>>> you start with the alpha.7105 image at
>>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10alpha/  and file in Diego's fixes to
>>>> Multilingual at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6520 then you
>>>> should be able to open the test runner, run all the tests, and
>>>> get the
>>>> same results that I got.  Without Diego's fixes, running all tests
>>>> crashes the system.  Fixes are welcome!
>>>>
>>>> Second, the more packages, the better.  Please suggest packages
>>>> in PU
>>>> that I should use as test cases.  Packages without any tests aren't
>>>> that useful.  It is Ok for packages to have failing tests, but the
>>>> packages shouldn't crash or ask for input. See
>>>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5987     Note that GamesTests is a
>>>> package that is just tests, but it depends on a package of games so
>>>> when you load it, you load the games that it tests.  This is a good
>>>> way to provide tests when you don't want to always include the tests
>>>> with the application.
>>>>
>>>> Third, I am not committed to this particular testing system.  It is
>>>> just something I threw together, and requires a bit of
>>>> handholding to
>>>> keep going.  It probably won't run on anybody else's computer
>>>> without
>>>> some tweaking.  If somebody else wants to write a better one, I
>>>> would
>>>> be happy.  Otherwise I will eventually turn it into something more
>>>> stable.  Note that what I want is a way to take a proposed image and
>>>> see if it breaks any package.  The most important report is the
>>>> one at
>>>> http://speedy.cs.uiuc.edu/~johnson/testResults/3.10alpha.7105.html
>>>> For details, you can always build your own image and use TestRunner,
>>>> so it is not so important that the testing system record the
>>>> details.
>>>>
>>>> -Ralph
>>>
>>>
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