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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: "guile-devel@gnu.org" <guile-devel@gnu.org>,
	 Bruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>
Subject: Re: Replacing Guile test-suite with SRFI-64?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:13:23 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1556798849.3129037.1695482003526@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6nlyryy.fsf@makinata.eu>

> Hi,

> Would a rewrite of the Guile tests using SRFI-64 be a welcome idea?
> IMO the advantages of doing so are:

...

>Opinions?

IMHO, I think Guile should not depend too heavily on Guile for testing itself.
It is bad bootstrapping practice.

And personally, I find that errors in srfi-64 tests are more difficult to interpret
that errors in the guile test suite framework. The logging is worse.


- Mike



  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-23 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-23 12:49 Replacing Guile test-suite with SRFI-64? Bruno Victal
2023-09-23 15:13 ` Mike Gran [this message]
2023-09-24 22:27   ` Maxime Devos
2023-09-24 23:32     ` Mike Gran
2023-09-25  9:48       ` Maxime Devos
2023-09-26  8:17         ` Taylan Kammer
2023-09-27 16:12           ` Taylan Kammer
2023-09-26 12:25   ` Bruno Victal
2023-10-31 13:20 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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