Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpcUnit todo list

[Jonas Maebe]

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From: Dean Zobec <dezobec at tin.it>
Date: Fri 10 Nov 2006 00:04:44 GMT+01:00
To: Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>, Michael Van Canneyt  
<michael at freepascal.org>, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [fpc-pascal] fpcUnit todo list

Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
>
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>
>> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
>>>>> The easiest thing to do is to include fpcunit itself in fcl/inc.
>>>>> All the units around it can be done in fcl/fpcunit, which is  
>>>>> built at
>>>>> a later stage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael.
>>>>  I agree with this.
>> This arises a fundamental question: should the tests for all  
>> package (non
>> rtl/compiler!) go into fpc/tests/<package> or should they be in
>> fpc/<package>/test and being executed by make tests in fpc/? At  
>> least it
>
> It must be fpc/package/tests.
>
> Peter and I decided to build support in the packager for this, so  
> you can
>
> - download
> - compile
> - test
> - install
>
> a package...
>
> Michael.
Good idea ! :)
I agree, the first thought I had was to put them in fpc/<package>/tests
directory, they should be somehow close to the production code. The
support in the packager is absolutely great! But it would be also useful
that the main build process would be able to build all the tests in a
single runner program and run them at once. I think that even with a
very large number of tests the suite of all unit tests could be built
and run in less than a minute considering that is a single program (of
course a configuration file could be added to be able to skip some tests
that take more time to run).

Dean

P.s Michael, did you receive my mail with the attached packages tests
you've asked for?