Re: Unit tests, was Re: [PEAR-DEV] an HTML_Template_IT[X] fork is available

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:37, John Luxford wrote: > >> Christian Dickmann wrote: > >>> We don't have to prove, that your new package breaks BC, > >>> you have to prove, that it does not! > > Not to encourage further argument, but I feel that this is an > unreasonable statement. Since there are no unit tests to verify, > nobody can prove anything is BC or not. This makes patch-work, with or > without a proper patch, and analysis of new contributions much more > difficult, and more prone to error. In turn, this creates a barrier to > entry for PEAR contributions, which is IMO a bad thing. > > I would say that more importantly than we've held coding standards > even, we should be holding two things: unit tests and documentation. I > really hate it when I find a cool PEAR package that sounds like it does > *exactly* what I need, then find out I have to read the entire source > to figure out how to use it. And unfortunately at that point, I don't > take any consolation in the fact that the code is at least "readable" > according to PEAR standards. ;) Amen and +1 to that, Paul > Lux > > > > > -- > > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > -- > > John Luxford > President and Chief Developer > ______________________________ > SIMIAN systems > Driving Web Content Management > ______________________________ > web : http://www.simian.ca/ > email : lux@simian.ca > phone : 204.452.8537 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Cooper | Tel: 0121 331 7858 Software Manager | Fax: 0121 331 7859 Digital Media Centre | mailto:pgc@design4media.co.uk University of Central England | http://www.design4media.co.uk Birmingham, B4 7DX | -----------------------------------------------------------------