[TIP] Testify

[Olemis Lang]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:08 AM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> Olemis wrote:
>> Titus wrote:
>> > So we have a bunch of nearly identical test frameworks, all with
>> > slight syntactic differences, all serving nearly the same purpose within
>> > slightly different constraints, with various levels of internal mungery.
>> > People keep on telling me that their framework or approach is better,
>> > or somehow rawks, but since they mostly decline to document this
>> > simply enough for me to understand, or seem to regard arbitrary design
>> > decisions and limitations as an "improvement", I remain unconvinced.
>>
>> ... if this means that there should be a minimalistic core from which
>> all other libs frameworks should be implemented , I like that idea .
>> But in practice, in my case, the fact is that I'm not very comfortable
>> with the std , and I think there are a lot of things that need to be
>> enhanced and even major changes be introduced in there (and
>> historically, from my perspective, I notice a lot of barriers to do
>> this ...). This means that the time I can dedicate to convince people
>> about taking one approach is better invested in forking and writing my
>> own lib . Eventually if someone likes it, will use it ; and if nobody
>> else does, I would, so that's enough to make me happy anyway .
>
[...]
>
> So there's plenty of room for reinventing the wheel, especially if you're
> looking for a differently-shaped wheel.
>
> But if you do create a new package that you're putting forward for other
> people to use, I for one will be grumpy if you don't:
>
>  1) delineate at least one deciding factor that made you implement something
>    new.  "I don't like using other people's code" is not a good reason IMO.
>

IMHO, not saying this isn't probably a reason for legitimating the
«catastrophic» situation due to TiP-land plurality (& diversity) ...

>  2) document it reasonably well.
>

time

[...]
> The same
> holds true for pony-build, and twill, and pinocchio, and all the other crap
> that I've foisted off on TiP with varying success.
>

same boat for everyone , I suppose

> So there's a bit more context for my grumpiness.
[...]

same for mine, but no time to document it ... :(

> Cheers, all :)
>

:)

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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