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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Peter Vreman wrote:

>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>>>>> 1. fpcunit didn't exist at the time the FPC tests were implemented.
>>>>>>> 2. Using FPCunit creates a dependency on it. The tests can run
>>>>>>> mostly
>>>>>>>    with only the system unit...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which dependencies? Maybe they can be reduced and a fpcunit can be
>>>>>> added to tests?
>>>>>
>>>>> fpcunit depends on not so much, but I want to avoid using the FCL in
>>>>> the
>>>>> testsuite... Creating a copy seems rather silly too...
>>>>
>>>> You can create an svn:external to important that one from the fcl
>>>> without
>>>> creating a real copy.
>>>
>>> Good idea.
>>>
>>> Should we convert existing tests to fpcunit ?
>>
>> No, too much work, no real gain :)
>
> I agree here. New tests can be added with fpcunit. But the basic principe
> of using the halt and the dotest program needs to stay in place.

That is one of the "problems" of fpcunit: it runs a lot of tests in 1
program. The test suite stores 1 result per program; it would need
a lot of modifications, I think.

Michael.