On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Jim Weirich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Luis Lavena wrote: > >> Jim: would you bless this work to be included into Rake itself? Right >> now is been driven by features (Cucumber) and specs, but I could >> change that and add TU if is a requirement. > > > Sorry, I've been under the weather the past few days and am behind in email.
No problem, we are all behind emails :-) > In principle, I support getting this kind of thing into rake. I won't > comment on the specifics of this proposal until I get a chance to look it > over. From the discussion, it sounds like people with more experience in > native extensions than me are already providing feedback. Yes, they do, and is really helpful. Right now ExtensionTask is able to generate a native gem for the provided gem_spec. Section "Generate native gems" in the README: http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/tree/master/README.rdoc > Regarding cucumber/specs, you can use what you like, but if its going to be > part of rake, I will expect it to use Test::Unit. > I took a look to how Tasks like RDoc and other are being tested. They pretty much deal with definition of those, and is not actually invoking them. Using Cucumber I managed to drive a integration test like any user will do, beyond just the task definition. In any case, I'll evaluate conversion of those once I managed to complete Java and cross platform building. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
