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

John Luxford <lux@simian.ca> 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. ;) +100 here. That is question i am asking since a start using PEAR packages. The main motivation was productivity. But when you start looking at source codes, trying to figure out how to use that nice package you loose the point. You even starts trying to do better. Since we have a nice xml package control, why not include mandatory tags for doc (minimal maybe) AND examples. And while we are on this thread, why not put a page about etiquete demands on developers. Or something like a ranking: this guy listen to you, that one is a nice one to work with, that one is a pain in the a*. This is a joke in case someone want to starts a new flame war... S.Rocha > > 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 > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/