Joe Wilson wrote:
--- Richard Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe Wilson wrote:
Just implement it and run the test suite.
It's easier to respond to a specific problem than a hypothetical.
Is the test suite available only in Tcl? Or is there a C version
as well?
Tcl.
But you don't have to run the test suite on the embedded system necessarily.
You can simulate it on a PC with the same code.
Yes, I was just thinking the same thing.
My company develops middleware for set-top boxes. Since we don't want to
rewrite our middleware for every different brand of box (each with its own OS),
we have specified our own box-independent OS layer, which we call the "Porter".
The Porter, like SQLite's "os_xxxxx.c" layer, needs to be re-implemented for
each different kind of box. I am implementing "os_porter.c", which will allow
SQLite to run on top of Porter (and therefore on any box we support).
Naturally, we have written a version of Porter that runs on Windows, so that
we can develop, run, and debug our middleware on an ordinary PC. Since Tcl
runs on Windows, I should be able to use your test suite to test my implement-
ation of "os_porter.c" on a PC.
It would be nice to be able to run the test suite on the various boxes, but
I don't think that will be necessary. Experience has shown that when our
middleware behaves differently on a box than on a PC, the difference is
almost always due to a bug in the box's Porter implementation, and *not*
to a bug in the middleware.
Thanks Joe,
- Richard Klein
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