From: jonathan gold <dev@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T02:34:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --fqname option to test/unit/autorunner.rb

Thanks again for getting back to me. Perhaps my original focus on the 
fact that I had multiple test cases in the same file was something of a 
red herring -- I think it's only incidental to the real issue.

As I understand the current intent of AutoRunner, and of the testing 
libraries as a whole, the intent is to have a collector 
(Collector::ObjectSpace, Collector::Dir, or otherwise) gather up 
multiple test cases from somewhere. As it is today, the '--testcase' and 
the '--name' options are in place to allow the user to filter the 
collection, regardless of how they were collected, in some meaningful 
way. I believe that these two options leave a gap for what I'm proposing 
with '--fqname', and so it seems that the patch would be in line with 
the current spirit of the libraries.

Again, perhaps my assumptions are incorrect about the intent of the 
Collector classes and of how the test suites are expected to function. 
If that is the case, perhaps the authors most familiar with the testing 
architecture could help me better understand?

jon

Berger, Daniel wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jonathan gold [mailto:dev@samizdatdigital.org] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:22 PM
>>To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
>>Subject: Re: [PATCH] --fqname option to test/unit/autorunner.rb
>>
>>
>>Daniel --
>>
>>One of my colleagues pointed out that maybe I mistook your initial 
>>response. To clarify, will this patch be applied to the ruby 
>>codebase at 
>>some point?
> 
> 
> Not unless Matz or Nathaniel Talbott approve it.
> 
> There's no reason you couldn't create your own little library, install
> it, and require it separately, is there?  Otherwise you'll be waiting
> until mid August at the earliest.  Given the lack of feedback on your
> patch I suspect the general consensus is that you shouldn't put multiple
> test case classes in the same file, so there's just no demand for this
> patch.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan
> 
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