From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unit test framework Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20100318.163911.560917315840337376.yamato@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269354173 17584 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 14:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nikolaj Schumacher , web@shellarchive.co.uk, Lennart Borgman , Masatake YAMATO , ohler+emacs@fastmail.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rubikitch , Phil Hagelberg To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 15:22:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu50H-0002vC-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:22:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu50G-0004fp-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu50B-0004fH-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44486 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nu506-0004db-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu500-0001dP-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:51131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nu4zx-0001cg-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o2NEMHET031143; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B387E3A085; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:22:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:02:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3496=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122547 Archived-At: > I write try to write unit tests for my elisp, and it would be much > easier if there was a canonical unit test framework in Emacs. Yes, that's the intention. We should pick one and run with it. The choice doesn't have to be "the very best", but it should aim for: - simple&clean code, easy to maintain&extend. - well maintained with a maintainer interested in taking a lead helping us integrate it into Emacs. Stefan