From: Jason S. <jas...@gm...> - 2006-01-25 05:32:19
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Hi William, On 1/25/06, William S Fulton <ws...@fu...> wrote: > Hope you don't think I'm being a killjoy with the perl test framework. No - not at all! I hope you don't feel that I'm being a pain in the ass ;-) > Hopefully you can see the reasoning. I also wouldn't put in junit as it > requires a separate download which is hard to test for in configure.in. Ok. With Perl, the matter is slightly different. I believed Test::More is available with all recent versions of Perl (5.005 at least), but perhaps I was mistaken - I can check. As junit is independent, that logic makes sense. > Personally I think junit is overkill for what are basically really > simple tests. For a Java only project it would make more sense, but > we've got to deal with more than a dozen languages now. Actually for > Java and SWIG getting Java code to compile covers 90% of the testing > required as most of the time we need to check the types come out right > as it is a strongly typed language. ok. Cheers, jas. |