Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > > >As to the actual value of this: in a slight modification to your > >scenario above: I wouldn't want Sun service personnel (or whoever) to > >tell a user to run the ksh93 test suite before helping them with a ksh > >problem. As for your scenario: A user who saw a test case failure would > >probably call support and claim that something was broken. A user who > >was seeing a failure (lets say a ksh core dump) but a successful test > >suite run would probably still call for help. > > Also, I would hope that we run the test suite *prior* to shipping the > product and make sure it was successful.
Yes, the ksh93-integration prototype002/003 run the test suite by default. However I still have concerns about a possible removal of the test suite - it helped a lot in the past with hunting down compiler-, locale- or library-specific problems and IMO the test suite should be around for the next couple of months to help finding any possible bugs&®ressions in- and outside the ksh93 codebase. > In that sense, shipping any testsuite is unhelpful. Only if the test suite actually runs as part of the default OS/Net build. We're doing exactly that right now - the question is whether code reviewers will like that design or not... ;-/ ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
