RE: Test framework

[Chad Yates]

> Now, my first question: Why is there crc related stuff in ccxx_tests.cpp?

It really isn't supposed to be there, but I didn't take it out before I
submitted it because the issues with the crc32 algorithm were unresolved.

> Regarding persistence, I have a rather general question: How is platform
> independence of the files/streams achieved? I'm thinking of
> endianess. Or is
> the persistence framework not used to interchange data?
> (Asked that already, but it was lost in the ML traffic)

I doubt it is handled, but should be.  I'll probably be looking into it in
the future as my app needs to be cross platform at least between
powerpc/intel, and I use the persistence engine as part of my remote object
infrastructure.


> > Also feel free to make
> > test cases out of the functionality in some of the stand alone test
> > programs too.
> Really? Wouldn't that be somehow redundant... I mean if there is
> a bug in the
> testcode then there is one in the democode and vice versa?

yeah, I suppose, but it would be a good starting point for expansion, and
then obsolescence of the stand-a-lone test progs.

later,

chad