[tcljava-dev] Jacl test initiative begins.

[Mo D. <md...@cy...>]

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Christian Krone, Jacl 1.3
is now able to run the tcltest package from Tcl 8.3.
Jacl currently uses a pre-8.0 test suite. Updating
the test suite is going to be a lot of hard work,
but at least the first step has begun.

I just checked in the tcltest.tcl file from the Tcl
8.3 suite, along with the changes needed to get
it running. Each test file is going to need to
be updated so that:

if {[lsearch [namespace children] ::tcltest] == -1} {
    package require tcltest
    namespace import -force ::tcltest::*
}

appears at the top and:

# cleanup
::tcltest::cleanupTests
return

appears at the bottom.


I have already updated all the test
cases in the following directories:

tests/inprogress
tests/jacl
tests/tclblend
tests/tcljava


Now for the hard part. All of the
tests in tests/tcl are going to
need to be updated to match
the ones in Tcl 8.3.

This is going to send the number
of test case failures through the
roof, since Jacl does not implement
all of Tcl 8.3 yet. My plan is to
update all the existing test cases
and then start the long process
of upgrading Jacl so that it passes
all of the test cases.

Note that we are only going to be
able to test for things that are
actually implemented. The good news
is that the list of things that
has not been implemented is getting
smaller all the time.

As always, if you are willing to lend
a hand please say so! This process
will go much more quickly if folks
help out. My hope is that when
this process is finished, Jacl
will be 99% compatible with Tcl 8.3.

cheers
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc