Robert Goldman writes: > Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote: >> Robert Goldman writes: >> >>> 2. Returning a single operation isn't enough, is it? For example, if I >>> have system X, with sub-systems A, B, and C, I may be testing A, B, and >>> C, so my traversal would have to gather up the three subsidiary test-op >>> entities and either package them into the parent test-op object, or rip >>> the test results out of them and push them into the parent test-op >>> object. I don't believe the plan-then-execute logic of ASDF makes this >>> easy, but I may be wrong. >> >> Does performing TEST-OP on a sytem really result in testing all the >> system's dependencies? Or did you mean something else? > > We often have large structured systems where testing system X is done by > testing subsidiary systems A, B, and C that X depends on. > > Consider, for example, if one were to write a test-op for CLSQL. One > might then have subsidiary systems for the various DB backends, and one > would have the test-op for CLSQL run the test-op on each backend (or > some subset of the backends that are turned on).
So CLSQL's method on TEST-OP should perform tests on each backend and then merge the results of the subsystems into one result, shouldn't it? -T. _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list asdf-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel