From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T14:31:06+09:00
Subject: Adding Test::Unit to CVS

Matz has already given me the go-ahead to add Test::Unit to CVS, but I
thought I'd make sure the strategy I'm planning to use is a good one
first.

Even though Test::Unit will be in the 1.7/1.8 distribution now, I still
have to maintain the distribution for 1.6, and I'm hacking pretty hard
on the source right now and don't want to introduce instability to 1.7
so close to the release of 1.8.0. Also, while I guess Rubicon may be
part of the distribution someday, it isn't today, which means there
isn't a good place for the Test::Unit tests to go (yet). Thus, I'm
planning on importing Test::Unit, using something like the following:

  cvs -d:pserver:ntalbott@cvs.ruby-lang.org:/src import -Ipre-install.rb
-m "Imported Test::Unit 0.1.6" ruby/lib testunit testunit_0-1-6

Now, I just discovered this command tonight, so maybe it isn't a good
way to do this. What I see as the advantage, though, is that then I can
just re-import every time I release a new version of Test::Unit, and the
main ruby distro won't be affected by bugs (yes, even with testing I
still introduce bugs <sigh>) that I may create in active development.

Now, some day I would expect to freeze development for the 1.6 line,
move the tests for Test::Unit in to Rubicon, and move the active
development work to the main Ruby distro, but I'd rather do that after
the 1.8.0 release and after Rubicon has moved in to the distribution,
too.

Is this a good plan? Is there a better strategy?


Nathaniel

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