On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:39:45 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > > > > >The idea behind making the tests part of the "default" build procedure > > >in Solaris was to catch/solve/handle multiple issues: > > >- Someone breaks libc/libnsl/libsocket/etc. and ksh93 goes mad elsewhere > > >(and we get the blame). > > > > This is where it hurts that we have not made testing open yet.
> Yes, but AFAIK the Solaris test suites and the ksh93/AST test suites are > designed to do different things - the ksh93 tests were created to find > bugs which were hit once (to prevent that they ever surface again) while > the Solaris test suites are more designed to find violations of > standards... or am I wrong here ? ksh93+ast tests are both flavors regex and ksh related tests are especially standards oriented but many bug fix related tests end up encoding expected/standard behavior so after time it might be hard to distinguish the flavors -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
