[Mono-list] SPAM-LOW: Re: NUnit Version - Upgrade soon?
Juan C. Olivares
juancri at juancri.com
Tue Nov 25 08:50:17 EST 2008
Mono installs its NUnit version on the GAC when you compile mono. If it's a
private version, why it's installed on the GAC?
Regards
Juan C. Olivares
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Sebastien Pouliot <
sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Charlie,
>
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:38 -0800, Charlie Poole wrote:
> > I didn't know it was your archive, but if you need it
> > then it seemed to make sense that there would be some
> > changes. If not, why build it from source at all?
> >
> > This isn't a criticism - just something I'm trying to
> > get an understanding about. There seems to be some
> > obstacle to NUnit adoption (I don't mean obsolete
> > versions, but up to date ones) in the Mono community
> > and I'd like to figure out the reasons.
>
> You simply did too well on NUnit 2.2 ;-) and no one, until Atsushi,
> needed the features "badly" enough to update the mono tree (potentially
> a huge task).
>
> OTOH this might have been interpreted by other people as being the
> (only?) "supported" version - even if we have been saying, for years,
> not to confuse the old Mono's version with the latest and greatest NUnit
> available.
>
> Sebastien
>
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> > > [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
> > > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:19 PM
> > > To: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] SPAM-LOW: Re: NUnit Version - Upgrade soon?
> > >
> > > It is anything but negative approach. As I wrote earlier, I
> > > believe this is a mono bug that likely hits other projects
> > > and should be fixed in mono land.
> > >
> > > I'll try to cook a repro and file a bug.
> > >
> > > For the record, there is almost no change in NUnit code in my archive.
> > > We just have to change AssemblyInfo (assembly key location),
> > > remove tests (they are extra in our source tree) and extra
> > > stuff such as GUI.
> > > It is straightforward upstream code. Believe or not, just diff them ;)
> > >
> > > Atsushi Eno
> > >
> > >
> > > Charlie Poole wrote:
> > > > I think a more positive approach would be to work with the NUnit
> > > > project so that you can just use the upstream code.
> > > >
> > > > Charlie
> > > >
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> > > >> [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of
> > > Atsushi Eno
> > > >> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 4:30 PM
> > > >> To: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> > > >> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Mono-list] NUnit Version - Upgrade soon?
> > > >>
> > > >> You almost do not have to do that:
> > > >> http://veritas-vos-liberabit.com/tmp/2008/nunit24-mono.tar.bz2
> > > >>
> > > >> It builds but does not work anyways right now, probably because of
> > > >> some type resolution bugs between nunit-console.dll and
> > > >> nunit-console.exe.
> > > >>
> > > >> If you have patch for mono (diff in mono/mcs, not diff in
> > > >> nunit) to fix any issues, that is welcome.
> > > >>
> > > >> Atsushi Eno
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Michael Franz wrote:
> > > >>> OK,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I thought I read somewhere that there were patches to NUnit
> > > >> that were
> > > >>> mono specific.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Is it ok to submit patches to mono that depend on the
> > > >> latest version
> > > >>> of NUnit?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Michael
> > > >>>
> > > >>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Miguel de Icaza
> > > <miguel at novell.com
> > > >>> <mailto:miguel at novell.com>> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Hello,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > What changes to NUnit were specific to Mono?
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > Is there a list of these features?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> You are confused; There are no changes, you should
> > > >> just not depend on
> > > >>> Mono's built-in and private copy of NUnit to write your
> > > >> NUnit test
> > > >>> cases.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> You should get the latest NUnit.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Miguel de Icaza
> > > >>> <miguel at novell.com <mailto:miguel at novell.com>>
> > > >>> > wrote:
> > > >>> > Hello,
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > > I use NUnit for work and have been using
> > > >> the latest version
> > > >>> > for
> > > >>> > > months. I wrote some test for Mono and
> > > >> found out that the
> > > >>> > version
> > > >>> > > that Mono is using does not support some
> > > >> of the asserts
> > > >>> I am
> > > >>> > using
> > > >>> > > (IsEmpty). Is there any plan to upgrade
> > > >> the version of
> > > >>> > NUnit that is
> > > >>> > > used with the Mono build/test?
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > The NUnit that ships with Mono should be considered
> > > >>> Mono's own
> > > >>> > copy of
> > > >>> > NUnit and not a public version of it.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > We should probably make packages of the
> > > >> latest version of
> > > >>> > NUnit,
> > > >>> > encourage the NUnit developer to maintain
> > > >> those and encourage
> > > >>> > developers
> > > >>> > to use the public NUnit as opposed to the
> > > >> private copy that
> > > >>> > Mono ships.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> >
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
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