From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T00:51:27+09:00
Subject: BFTS (was Re: RubySpec Wiki in full swing)

Brian Mitchell wrote:
> That has been forked off into oblivion it seems. Ryan Davis started
> the BFTS project not long after RubyConf05 but it is only available in
> a perforce repository last I heard. I am still interested in working
> on stuff like this but I personally think that the project should be
> much more open and available [1].

> [1] No offense meant to the efforts that have been made. It just isn't
> a very visible project and that hurts awareness and possible
> contribution.

Well ... you're not the only one who wants to get their hands on BFTS.
:) Maybe that's part of the problem -- rather than a "BF" test suite,
there should be a "BF" collection of little test suites, contributed by
users with various areas of expertise, such as numerical and scientific
computing, web applications, Windows development, distributed computing
-- all areas where Ruby is expanding into from its "base" as an
object-oriented scripting language.

I'd certainly be willing to contribute numerical computing tests -- I've
got to build them anyhow. :)