[Seaside-dev] JQuery tests and flow

[Dale Henrichs]

----- "Julian Fitzell" <jfitzell at gmail.com> wrote:

| On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
| <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
| >>>>>> "Dale" == Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemstone.com> writes:
| >
| > Dale> I would think that if JQuery itself doesn't depend upon Flow,
| then the
| > Dale> tests or at least a subset should be independent of Flow as
| well.
| >
| > I could disagree.  A testing environment might require test
| harnesses
| > that are not required for deployment.
| >
| > For example, does a running system require SUnit?  No.  You need it
| only when
| > you are trying to test something.
| >
| > Similarly, tests for jquery could require Flow, where the package
| itself
| > for deployment does not.
| 
| Yes, for example, all of our Functional Tests require the -Component
| package, even if what they're testing might otherwise not. That said,
| if we can have all or most of the JQuery functional tests working
| without Flow (we did the same to the Functional tests by using
| #show:onAnswer: instead of #call:) that would definitely be A Good
| Thing.

Is being "A Good Thing" the same as, go ahead and tackle it before beta?:)

I can take a look tomorrow and see if the majority of the tests fall into that category...

Dale