>-----Original Message----- >From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:05 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [testing] locale dependent tests > >On 26/07/06, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tim Ellison wrote: >> > On 25/07/06, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > <snip> >> >> Not sure what the "fake" hard-coded locale is. I used to set the >default >> >> locale to some particular one, e.g., en_US, but it seems that someone >> >> (Tim) does not like the idea. :-) >> > >> > What I objected to was setting the locale to a specific value that >> > made the tests pass even where the logic is locale-specific. So, for >> > example, if an application using the ru_RU locale would experience the >> > problem that Alexey is seeing with the DecimalFormat, then the tests >> > should use the default locale, and we (Harmony) get the benefit of a >> > wide community of hetrogeneous testers. >> > >> > i.e. don't make all tests run on a uniform machine set-up -- let them >> > be realistic. >> Agree :-) Maybe we will two kinds of locale-related tests: >> 1) tests which should pass on any locale >> 2) tests which are intended to be executed in one particular locale, for >> these tests, we can restrict the default locale to a specific one. > >Exactly. A comment in the source that slams the locale should be >sufficient to show people that it is a type (2) test. >
Yeah, agree with this. Regards, Alexey. >Regards, >Tim > >> Any comments? Thanks a lot. >> >> Best regards, >> Richard >> >> > >> > Regards, >> > Tim >> > >> >> -- >> Richard Liang >> China Software Development Lab, IBM >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > >-- > >Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >IBM Java technology centre, UK. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Middleware Product Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
