From: Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T05:10:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24027] Re: Test::Unit = Lapidary + RubyUnit

jweirich@one.net [mailto:jweirich@one.net] wrote:
 
> >>>>> "Nathaniel" == Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com> 
> >>>>> writes:
> 
>     Nathaniel> Masaki has (very graciously) agreed to have RubyUnit
>     Nathaniel> merge into Lapidary, and then the resulting framework,
>     Nathaniel> which will probably be named something simple like
>     Nathaniel> Test::Unit, will go into the Ruby proper.
> 
> This is great news!
> 
> Are you going to include the current mock object package in 
> the standard distribution?  I think it would be a great idea.

Yes; see my reply to Nat Pryce.


> I'm wondering if this will make Ruby the first language to 
> ship its xUnit package as part of the standard language distribution?

As Jimmy pointed out in [ruby-talk:23946], probably not, but I could see
us being the first language to ship a full suite of tests for the
language itself with the distribution... to me, that has even more
significance than just shipping a framework. Go Rubicon!


Nathaniel

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