Re: Status of Validate

"Helgi Þormar" <helgi@trance.is> wrote in message news:1112554624.5470.38.camel@megatokyo... > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 20:42 +0200, Torsten Roehr wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > what's the current status of Validate? > > > > A lot of bugs have been closed since the last release (2004-03-17): > > http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?search_for=&boolean=0&limit=10&order_by= > > &direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=Closed&bug_type=All&package_name%5B%5D=Val > > idate&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&maintain=&author_email=&bug_age=0&bug_updated= > > 0 > > (ignore the first one) > > > > So maybe it's time to (at least) release a beta version (maybe even stable > > if PEAR allows jumping from alpha to stable). I think that a lot of people > > are scared off by the "alpha" tag. I've been using the 0.4.1 release > > successfully in a lot of projects and would really like to see a new > > release. > > > > If there is demand I would be happy to write unit tests for the current CVS > > version. > > > > I remember that some weeks ago it was discussed to split Validate into > > different packages. What's the status with that? > > > > Any comments are greatly appreciated! Hi Helgi, thanks for your quick response. Please see my comments below. > Can't remember if we posted about this here, but we are splitting > Validate into smaller packages and as you see most of those things have > unit testing but some are lacking and some need just extra love (read as > more data to throw at it) I'll take a look and maybe add some test data. > The splitting is all done and I even wrote some unit tests so we're in > very good shape but there is one or two bugs still left and both I and > Pierre and Stefan are very busy at the moment so it has to wait unless > someone else (*hint*Torsten*hint*) steps in and takes care of those > things. > > The multiple function would be one thing that might need some attention > after the split up. I'll take a look at this as well. > Anyway knock ya self out and see what you can do, just file bug > reports/feature reports if you do anything with links to unified diffs > and etc. :-) I've just created a diff for one of the two open requests (incl. extended unit test): http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=997 (URIs to the diffs/files can be found in the comments) Best regards, Torsten > You can post all questions here also if there are any additional things > you need to know! :) > > - Helgi