GSUnit, debian, and flattened

[Travis Griggs]

About a week ago, I succeeded in getting my little testing framework 
working and gnu-step components installed in a way that made me happy. 
Much thanks to responses here and especially in the irc channel. This is 
a (slightly belated) report of the things I noticed on the way:

1) Attached is the actual code I wrote. I realize that there was already 
some testing frameworks out there. But I wanted to write my own for the 
experience of doing so. I have no idea if its of value to anyone. 
Basically, I filed-out SUnit3.0 from a Smalltalk environment and then 
began changing syntax to make it work. There's still some things I'd 
like to tweak about it; I'd of course be thrilled if someone were to 
critique it and provide feedback as I recognize my greeniness.

2) Debian and GNUstep. When I first got into Linux, I remember the thing 
I hated was always having to recompile stuff. Debian sure has spoiled 
me. I really wanted to use the Debian versions of gnustep-base and 
gnustep-make. In this case, I was not able to get it to match. The 
debian install puts GNUSTEP_ROOT at /usr/lib/GNUstep. I'm curious why it 
doesn't put it at /usr/local/GNUstep, which seems to be the default when 
you build it yourself. I also wish the debian version of them was the 
flattened version. Debian's supposed to be about making the end guy's 
life easier, for the common case. I found that the unflattened version 
annoyed me (I know, trite), and I could find no way to use debian in 
newbie mode to get a newbie style (read: flattened) install of gnustep.

3) So I went the compile it myself route. This went actually quite well. 
This link: 
<http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/gnustep-make-ANNOUNCE> 
makes it sound as if by default you now get the flattened architecture, 
which is what I had wanted. But I found that unless I ran configure with 
the --enable-flattened option, it definitely did not do the flattened thing.

Again, thanks for all the help. I've already begun writing tests and 
automating them; I look forward to using GNUstep base libraries any more?

BTW: does anyone know how to "randomize" the contents of an NSMutableSet?

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Travis Griggs
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