> >>>-with-mauve on configure at this point is there any real use? If not > >>>what is > >>>the plan? ( I'm trying to help classpath build the test cases with > >>>mauve, and > >>>I pick kissme as my vm cause John had build deb support for it and I use > >>>debian :) ) > >>> > >>> > >>I don't know what the plan is yet :-) > >> > >>Probably to be able run the mauve tests automatically. > >> > >> > > > >My "plan" was to include scripts and rules in the kissme Makefile for > >running Mauve tests on Kissme. However, this stalled because: > > > > 1) I couldn't find instructions on how to run Mauve tests, > > > Tell me about it... :) And the only valid link I could find on google is > what John wrote while back. Most of the test that I run will fail > ( in all the jvm I get , kissme, orp, jdk1.2 1.3, 1.4 ) That kind of give > me a bad feeling how solid the test base are ( not the test case ) > e.g. gnu/testlet/SimpleTestHarness.java > Unless the test case is bad also ( I read a couple test cast, some > shouldn't fail in jdk, but it did )
Mauve does need more contributors than it currently has. It's not broken however, lots of the test cases work fine. > > 2) the Mauve tests looked pretty thin on the ground, and > > > ah...I think they started it and havn't put much in lately.... > Is there anything better out-there that we can try? Or less > complex and closer to what we are doing? (in nature ) like a > vm checker ( debuger? ) and inner class tester ( AI type testing > I'm not sure reflection going to be inplace by then, but if we get > reflection done we can possible build a testing agent and look > over all the classes and then get a report from it. ) I don't think there is anything better. Stephen wrote some vm tests for kissme, but it's nothing on the same scale. > > 3) they seemed to focus on complex stuff, not on the low level > > things we were doing. > > > >However, I recall someone mentioning that there are new instructions > >for running Mauve. So I'll look into this again. I'll try post some new instructions for running mauve and kissme soon. John Leuner _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
