On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Nicolas Cellier wrote:

> 2009/12/14 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>>
>> Mirror primitives do not exists in the current vm. Will the vm have mirror
>> primitives? Should we keep the tests? Removing these would "fix" 6 errors.
>>
> As a general policy, I would say don't remove failing tests.
> Declare them as known failures
>

I agree, but if the squeakvm won't have mirror primitives, then these 
tests are totally useless.


Levente

> Nicolas
>
>> Building a vm with the latest VMMaker lets 6 failing test pass
>> (AllocationTest, BitBltTests). It also avoids crashing linux as reported
>> before
>> (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2009-December/142074.html).
>> And it also yields slight performance improvement because of the
>> primitiveNextPut fix. Why aren't vm releases available with these fixes?
>>
>> There are two "great challenges" which would let most other failing tests
>> pass:
>> - fixing traits (the issues are solved in pharo, but one has to extract and
>> integrate them)
>> - fixing the decompiler (there's an issue with temporary variable
>> declarations in inlined blocks)
>> Is anybody working on these?
>>
>> If all the above is done, we will only have "minor" issues, like:
>> - TextMorphTest>>#testInitialize which tries to add itself to the
>> "Scripting" flap which doesn't exists. (should we remove that part?)
>> - LocaleTest>>#testIsFontAvailable which probably has invalid assumptions
>> about the fonts.
>> - MorphicToolBuilderTests>>#testGetButtonSideEffectFree
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Levente
>>
>>
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