I re-run the tests to the #8475 (on windows xp) and documeted them on
the same page.

About the primitives, the suggestion of Igor sound reasonable if is
possible to implement.

About the LongTestCase, shouldn't be bad to have the option of execute
them on the TestRunner.

I will try to work a bit on some of these things when time permit.

See you.
Germán.



2009/12/14 Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/14 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>> 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.
>>
>
> i think for such cases there should be a way to test if VM provides
> new primitives, and if so, then run tests, otherwise just pass them
> silently
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>