[Seaside-dev] experience porting Grease-Tests to GNU Smalltalk

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/07/2010 07:41 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> >  3) GRCodecTest>>#testCodecLatin1Binary and
>> >  GRUtf8CodecTest>>#testCodecUtf8Binary assume presence of a #binary method
>> >  that apparently allows using ByteArrays instead of Strings. Again, is this
>> >  method needed?  What is the spec, or can we remove the tests altogether?
>
> Currently at least WAListenerAdaptor uses it.

What package is it in?

>> >  4) Codec tests are a bit broken, in that they assume ISO-8859-1 is special
>> >  in some way that I cannot really understand (and more so after the brief
>> >  discussion of a few days ago).  In general, the tests must not assume that
>> >  the literal 'Übèrstrîñgé' is expressed as ISO-8859-1,   as long as it is
>> >  equal (#=) to whatever #decode: answers.  For example, gst literals use
>> >  whatever is in the LC_ALL or LANG environment variables; typically UTF-8.
>
> Hmm, that one feels familiar. Would a String class>>  #streamContents:
> and Character class>>  #value: work better?

Not really.  But it is probably not too bad, let me post my solution as 
code as it is much easier understood that way.

Paolo