On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:01:36 +0200 (CEST) Robert Vazan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RV> Everything you write seems to be of interest to other list members so I RV> don't quite understand why did you send it privately to me. Apologies. I compiled M under Mandrake 9.0 and before I got to fixing the "send to list vs. send to sender" stuff, I reloaded and started again and forgot to change that. That reminded me to go to Preferences before I forget ;-) RV> Well, I fear I would be pushing big ball in front of me and I wouldn't RV> be able to complete my goals because of it. I thought about Python only RV> because all other test frameworks use some scripting language. I am not RV> sure why they do it. RV> Most of the script languages tend to be interpreted vs compiled making integration easier since you don't need to include a compiler. Most are also easier to learn ;-) RV> > At some point down the track, I hoped to try to get one of the Python RV> > based spam filters like spam-bayes working entirely within Mahogany RV> so RV> > users can have spam filtering but don't have to mess about setting up RV> > POP proxies. RV> RV> One question is whether we want to use Python internally for projects RV> like above or whether it gives some value to users. Making it available RV> to users requires building interfaces to all Mahogany components. These RV> interfaces would be also necessary for testing framework. They are a RV> lot of work. Integrating some Python-based tool is much less work. Having spent a lot of time in the buglist, you will be suprised how much of the internals of M users have asked to be exposed. Since Python works with wxWindows already it is a shorter step to achieve using Mahogany than say starting again with Lisp or somethingn else. There is aleady some Python stuff in M so it is not like we need to start from fresh, rather it is an enhancement job. As to how hard, I could not say. RV> > > * So did anybody try testing beyond "just try it on myself" level? RV> > RV> > It would fit very nicely into my QA job but I'm not a programmer. I RV> > would be interested in working with you on that. I looked at trying RV> > to learn C++ but it gave me headaches. I was wondering how hard Python RV> > was? RV> RV> I learnt C++ through trial and error over years of use. I wrote total RV> of one line of Python code as part of one bugfix. :-) After writing few RV> initial test cases, I will sure build some "base" functions that make RV> actual test cases look much like scripts. I doubt we will ever get any RV> test cases from end users. Your help would be welcome. I'm wondering which line I should learn how to do so we can claim to be 100% better off :-) The first thing we would have to do is hack the makefiles to allow compilation against Python 2.2 or 2.3 and then see how much of what is already in there is broken :-) Hello world, here I come ;-) LOL Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
