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I love this package.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:48 AM, <yfrac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's is really really exciting!
>
> I think, write code let me understand things, and test let me know the
> code!
>
>
> Iain Dunning於 2014年11月6日星期四UTC+8上午1時35分11秒寫道:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just tagged FactCheck.jl v0.2 in METADATA.
>>
>> FactCheck was started by Zach Allaun a long long time ago in Julia terms
>> (March 2013), and was one of (if not the) first testing package for Julia.
>> Julia has managed to accumulate a large number of testing packages, but
>> none are as widely used as FactCheck.
>> However, it wasn't actively maintained anymore.
>> For that reason, we have moved FactCheck to the JuliaLang org on Github,
>> and I've refactored it a bit and even added some new features.
>> The last pre-move, pre-refactor release was 0.1.2, and I'll bump to 0.3.x
>> when new features are added.
>>
>> NEWS.md, for the FactCheck 0.2 release
>>
>> * NEW: Custom test messages, e.g. `@fact 1=>2 "two != one"`
>> * NEW: Added a compact mode, enable with `FactCheck.setstyle(:compact)`
>> * NEW: Added a `@pending` test type that is a no-op but records its 
>> existence.
>> * CHANGE: Minimum Julia version bumped to 0.3
>> * CHANGE: Colored output handled by Julia itself - to get colored output run 
>> with `julia --color`.
>> * CHANGE: `exitstatus` no longer exits Julia, instead throws an uncaught 
>> exception.
>> * REMOVED: `irrelevant` assertion helper.
>> * REMOVED: `@runtest` macro - was partially broken anyway.
>> * Re-written README. Simpler, explains all features, builds up incrementally 
>> to more advanced options.
>> * General refactoring of code base.
>>
>>
>> I hope this encourages wider use of FactCheck, and as more people use it, 
>> I'm sure more feature requests/issues/PRs will come in and make it better 
>> for everyone.
>>
>>
>> Finally, I don't want to say "don't make new testing packages" because there 
>> are different styles of testing.
>>
>> *But*: I'd strongly encourage people to contribute to making FactCheck 
>> better rather than starting their own.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Iain
>>
>>

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