On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > On 22-Jan-08, at 9:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> I think this could be an exciting way to get all the java applet >>>> makers out there interested in sage, although I don't completely >>>> understand the architecture of what this is supposed to do. >>> >>> Wouldn't a Java applet imply that the functionality it provides >>> could only be >>> accessed via Sage's web interface? >>> >>> I would like to establish some (roughly) like this: If a >>> computation cannot be >>> expressed from the command line (in pure Python) then it cannot be >>> a standard >>> part of Sage. E.g. if you cannot compute $sin(x)$ for some $x$ >>> from the >>> command line but you can do it by clicking some Java buttons, then >>> this >>> functionality would not be considered a part of (standard) Sage. >>> >>> Would that make sense? >>> Martin >> >> No, that makes no sense at all. > > One reason to do this is because automated testing graphical > interfaces (including, but not limited to, the notebook) tends to be > nigh on impossible. If it can't be done from the command line, it's > pretty hard to test; if it's not tested, I'd like it to not be widely > accepted.
It's not true that testing GUIs is in any way impossible (I believe several companies make such products, and make a pretty good living at it). However, I don't think there is a freely-available way to do it, and in this aspect, your point is well-taken, and reinforces to my being against "splitting" the functionality of Sage. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- Some people have a mental horizon of radius zero, and call it their point of view. -- David Hilbert -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
