[Mono-list] Help wanted: MCS compiler tests

Laurent de Segur ldesegur@mac.com
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:30:06 -0700


Sam,

Thanks for your reply. I am curious to know what you mean by "support from
those higher up." In short, I am wondering what could stop you from
developing a solution  to do conformance testing in mono (or any sort of
tools for that matter), especially if you enjoy doing such a task. I, for
one, can only see a benefit for having such a tool as probably would do
anyone involved with the project. Thanks for clarifying.

LdS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Kennedy" <sam_rk@bellsouth.net>
To: "Laurent de Segur" <ldesegur@mac.com>
Cc: <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Help wanted: MCS compiler tests


> Any big production should include some sort of quality control mechanism.
> You asked if I would interested to join a project as a volunteer for the
> sole purpose of this task (testing compatibility). Sure, if I had any
> support from those higher up, I would be glad to volunteer for this
> purpose.
>
> --
> Sam Kennedy
>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > Isn't it one of the benefits of OSS trying to avoid this type of
(expensive)
> > overhead? Would you be interested joining a project as a volunteer for
the
> > sole purpose of doing this task? As I understand things right now,
eveyone
> > contributes finding compliance problems as well as adding new feature in
the
> > code pool. Building an automated test conformance suite would be a nice
> > thing to have though. Basically what JCK is to Java would be really
sweet.
>
>