[Axiom-developer] Re: AxiomUnit

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hello Bill,

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:35:00 +0200, Bill Page <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> On 6/8/07, Christian Aistleitner wrote:
> > ...
> > > Given that, what remains for AxiomUnit?
> >
> > As we've already discussed in private mail some time ago, there are more
> > things. But I suggest to switch to private communication again, as I do
> > not want to abuse the Axiom Mailing list for third party projects.
>
> [...], but I am very confused as as to why you
> would prefer private communication about a subjec that is
> important to so many other Axiom users.

If I'd know that AldorUnit could be nicely ported to Axiom and if I'd also  
know that this approach would be the only valid one, I'd probably discuss  
the whole process on the mailing list. However, I've been told that  
currently there are some scripts around to test Axiom code—which one is  
the best?
I assume you would not want full length discussion about every single  
issue of all such scripts on the list. AxiomUnit would not automatically  
be better.

To me AxiomUnit should be developed as an add-on library to Axiom. Along  
with tools to facilitate writing test (suites/cases/s) and executing them.
If later on people decide to integrate them into Axiom, it's fine.

It's similar to other add-on libraries of Axiom.
I suppose, you do not want to have the discussion of every Axiom add-on  
library on the list ;)

> What do you mean
> by "third party projects"?

AldorUnit has been developed for Aldor. But it is not entangled with  
Aldor.org in any way.
AldorUnit is coming from RISC, which is not entangled with Aldor.org as  
far as I can tell. Ralf might chime in here, if this not accurate.
By "Third party project" I meant a project not endorsed or encouraged by  
Axiom.

Kind regards,
Christian