Re: [Axiom-developer] merge branches/daly to trunk

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 06/04/2007 09:16 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Martin Rubey wrote:
>
> | "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> | 
> | > As far as I know, the only thing in silver (aka. axiom.daly,
> | > aka. axiom.trunk) is a first attempt at some regression testing.  I believe
> | > that Gaby is trying to port this downstream [...]
> | 
> | I think it is a mistake to do that.  We should port Christian Aistleitner's
> | code to use libaxiom instead of libaldor.
>
> Since I do not have resource to allocate for that task, should I go with
> no form of regression test at all?  
>
> -- Gaby

No, of course not. And what Christian told me, it seemed a bit more 
delicate then just providing TextWriter in Axiom. One of the bigger 
questions is, how to actually call this AxiomUnit functionality.

For Aldor that is easy, one compiles an executable and runs that. With 
Axiom that is not possible, because libaxiom cannot (at least not 
easily) be compiled into a standalone executable.

Now Martin, suppose one test fails misserably, causing memory damage and 
all bad things. You would like to go on with testing in a clean 
environment. But that basically says, you have to start Axiom for every 
single test. That's going to be heavy. But Christian might be better in 
saying something why AxiomUnit does not yet exist.

Ralf