On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On 09/11/06, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> First, I would prefer a patch to the fpcunit which makes the unit > >>> itself > >>> indenpendend from other stuff (xml) so it can be used in the fpc > >>> test suite :) > >> > >> The xml used is the xmlwriter unit - part of FPC. Is this a problem? > > > > The problem is that the xml stuff must be built before you can run > > the testsuite with fpcunit tests included (since the fpcunit package > > depends on the xml stuff). This means that before you can start > > running the testsuite, your compiler has to be stable and complete > > enough to compile packages and fcl. That's not reasonable. > > Wait a minute.... But you need a stable enough compiler to compile the > testsuite right? Hmm either you're inconsistent or you plan to test only > the RTL and compiler itself, am I right? That is what the current testsuite does: test the compiler and (parts of) RTL. But if the compiler has problems compiling classes and/or handling exceptions, you can forget the whole fpcunit anyway. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
