Should SUnit be part of Basic? (was Re: Against package removal before packages work correctly)

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Jun 29 20:35:16 UTC 2003


Hi doug,

> Anthony's post brings up something I was thinking about recently... 
> Should SUnit be part of the Basic configuration?
>
> The Basic configuration is the platform containing all the essential 
> development tools, I believe.  The IDE, basically.  We haven't really 
> strictly defined this, but this is what the original idea was.  (Side 
> note:  I don't think there's a swiki page or anything covering what 
> Full/Basic/Minimal are... we should write this down somewhere.)
>
> Is SUnit an essential development tool?  I would say yes... we are 
> trying to encourage folks to include tests with fixes, and requiring 
> test packages for Squeak-official packages.

If BASIC means tools essential for development then SUnit should be in. 
(but we should be able to remove it easily because new versions of 
Sunit are coming :).

> If we decide that SUnit should be part of Basic, this also means that 
> we should add it back into the update stream now, since we decided to 
> move toward Basic before we start continuing to Minimal.  I think this 
> is probably a good idea anyway as a matter of convenience until SM 1.1 
> and dependencies are ready.  (This is the only removed package that I 
> think might belong in Basic... the others (Balloon3D, VMMaker, etc.) 
> should probably stay out.)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Doug



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