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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