On Tue, 23 May 2006, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
Peter Vreman wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
1. fpcunit didn't exist at the time the FPC tests were implemented.
2. Using FPCunit creates a dependency on it. The tests can run
mostly
with only the system unit...
Which dependencies? Maybe they can be reduced and a fpcunit can be
added to tests?
fpcunit depends on not so much, but I want to avoid using the FCL in
the
testsuite... Creating a copy seems rather silly too...
You can create an svn:external to important that one from the fcl
without
creating a real copy.
Good idea.
Should we convert existing tests to fpcunit ?
No, too much work, no real gain :)
I agree here. New tests can be added with fpcunit. But the basic principe
of using the halt and the dotest program needs to stay in place.
I see no problem to execute "high" level tests using fpcunit. Maybe we need to
redesign our tests structure a little bit because with the current test system
we can't test fcl, packages and friends.
If we want to do this, there are 2 options:
1. Include the test programs with the packages/fcl/rtl whatever.
2. Use a completely separate test directory, as it is now.
Personally, I am slightly in favour of 2, because 1 will require
us to put the fpcunit in the RTL. 1. will require a more thorough
rewrite of the test suite...
Michael.
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