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David Van Horn wrote:
The draft period for SRFI 78: Lightweight testing has been extended until January 31. Unless significant issues are raised between now and then, it is likely to be finalized.
A significant issue has been raised: that it wastefully duplicates SRFI-64. I really think it is a bad idea to have two SRFIs for testing that both have a very similar style. (I know some people might like a more "object-oriented" framework such as SchemeUnit. However SRFI-78 is closer in style to SRFI-64 than to SchemeUnit.) In addition SRFI-78 is missing some fairly essential functionality. I've expressed willingness to modify SRFI-64 if it is deficient. The other complaint about SRFI-64 (besides it's tardiness, I'm sorry) is that it has too much functionality. If that is a problem we could split SRFI-64 into a "test-writer" API and a "test-runner" API. That might make it easier for people to digest what they need. (However, I would prefer not to have to split the implementation - I don't think that would be useful.) Unfortunately, I have not gotten any feedback on these suggestions. I was hoping for some willingness on Sabastian's to work with us on getting to a common API, but haven't seen any sign of that. Sigh. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://per.bothner.com/