From: "W. Kent Starr" <elderburn@...>
Date: 2001-01-10T04:41:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8955] Re: String confusion

On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> 1. All around the world, people with different kinds of machine would
>    set up a nightly checkout, build, and Rubicon run. If any tests
>    fail, Rubicon automatically e-mails a report to some queue at
>    ruby-lang.
> 
> 2. If these reports correspond to a bug, the interpreter or library is 
>    fixed. Otherwise, Rubicon is fixed.
> 
> 3. If a user finds a bug, the first thing that happens is that a test
>    case is added to Rubicon that illustrates the bug. The bug is then
>    fixed, and Rubicon run again to verify that the bug went away.
> 

Actually, in my naive opinion, this is a wondrous idea, provided enough people
with enough different scenarios (Linux,BSD,Win2000/NT/9x/Mac/etc.) are
participating.  This way, both the language and the test suite are being
continuously refactored over a wide range of "real world" environments, which
can only result in adding "great things" to Ruby. Can anyone think of a
"marketing name" for this kind of thing? RubE-Factoring? :-) 

Kent Starr
elderburn@mindspring.com