Re: [Firebird-test] What to do with TCS

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

Sean,

On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 08:29 AM, Leyne, Sean wrote:

> John,
>
>>
>> But we need to decide what to do with TCS first...
>>
>
> Personally, right at the moment given the timelines that we need to
> follow -- my vote is to modify TCS to use flat/XML files (so at least we
> get rid of the DB dependency) and _perhaps_ update the code so that it
> can compile under c++ with autoconf (just like the v2 engine work).

Would this modification entail full support for update the TCS files?  
Read-only (from TCS's perspective) flat files are much easier to do than 
read-write.  If full write support was needed we could do it after v1 
was shipped.

>
> Once we have v1 out the door, we can start a broader review of the
> various approaches.

I see a slight difficulty here.  Once we have certified v1 efforts will 
rightly shift to the v2 codebase.  At that point developers are going to 
be much less willing to spend time working on the test suite because it 
is not a priority.  Having an integrated test suite will help with v2 
code base development, especially when we start making more critical 
changes.  Right now testing is a priority and there are a number of 
hands ready/willing to work on it.

-John