[Mono-list] Help wanted: MCS compiler tests

[Laurent de Segur]

Sam,

When/if you do such a thing as a new project on sourceforge, could you
please post back a link to your project on this list. I would like to
contribute to this as well.

Thanks!

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 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Help wanted: MCS compiler tests


> Laurent:
>
> You make a good point. In fact, I just may hike over to sourceforge and
> make a project involving a test suite for C# and .NET, assuming such a
> thing doesn't already exist. I'm wondering if it would be best to develop
> such a thing independently from mono, or together with it though.
>
> --
> Sam Kennedy
>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Laurent de Segur wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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