[fpc-devel] Definition of the time-fration in a TDateTime before 30/12/1899

[Vincent Snijders]

Joost van der Sluis schreef:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:06 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 5/22/06, Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at quicknet.nl> wrote:
>>>  From Greame I would like to know how he proposes to update the
>>> TestSuite, if a new tests it added.
>> I am busy looking at the /tests directory now, to understand how tests
>> get grouped. This should give me a clearer idea of what is possible.
>> It took us a while to get a decent test structure for our code as
>> well.
>>
>> I agree that certain tests will have to stay in the format they are in
>> now.  Things that shouldn't compile, etc... All other tests could be
>> group in test suites. RTL suite, FCL suite, etc..
>> Maybe Dean Zobec has some ideas on this too.  Dean?
>>
>> I like the idea you guys have of using the Bug Report Number as the
>> test name.  This could be done with fpcUnit as well and should make
>> tracking of what tests have been converted to fpcUnit quite easy.
>> eg: Lets say we have a bug #1234 in the RTL.  Edit the RTL suite, by
>> adding a new method to the test class and the same naming convention
>> could be used. No extra objects / classes need to be created, just a
>> new method needs to be added.  Even the person reporting the bug could
>> write a simple fpcUnit test and submit that to Mantis, which can then
>> be copied into the correct suite. I submitted a couple of simple
>> fpcUnit test cases to show a bug, until I found out the FPCCore team
>> doesn't use the fpcUnit testing framework.  At that stage, I thought
>> using fpcUnit was the logical choice as it shipped with FPC.
> 
> Attached you can find an example for how this could be implemented.
> 
> The fpcunittests program runs all tests. It get those tests from the
> testunits.inc file. Use the gentestunits.sh script to generate that
> include file and fill it with all files names test*.pp. (bash/unix only.
> Maybe put this in a sort of makefile-system, if that's possible?)

Why not a pascal program, to remove the dependency on sh?

> 
> So to add a new unit with tests, name it test*.pp and place it in the
> same dir as the rest and run the script.
> 


Vincent.