From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-01T00:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.0 preview6 (what to test?)

On Thu July 31 2003 11:42 am, Brett H. Williams wrote:
> I'm compiling it now for a 'hello world' test.

Matz, maybe you could give a little guidance on what you want tested:
* the build process
* the ruby interpreter after the build is complete
* ...?

Now, I imagine the answer is "everything", but maybe you could give a little 
guidance on what areas to pay particular attention to.  Are there corner 
cases that may not get hit unless someone intentionally tries to break them?  
As to the build process, has anybody started making a checklist of systems / 
configurations on which the distribution is known to build cleanly, maybe 
using a wiki?  Also, are there instructions on what to do if the build 
process isn't as simple as "configure; make; make test; make install" for a 
particular platform?  I don't have access to any interesting hardware or 
OSes, just RedHat 9, RedHat 7.3 and OS X...

For really putting things through their paces, does anybody know of some Ruby 
software that really tests out the system?  Does FreeRIDE do it?  Would any 
old FOX based program work?  Any suggestions?

I'd like to help, and I have time slices that I could spend doing something in 
between attempts at building a Linux kernel, but I'm not sure how to help.

Ben