<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In reading through the history and issues of ASDF [1], I came across complaints that various LISP implementations were broken in ways that complicated its development.  Thinking that there must be a conformance test suite out there, I found ansi-test.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'd also come across cl-test-grid [2], which would seem like a great way to both exercise ansi-test and at the same time gain some insight into why a set of libraries might fail on a given implementation (e.g. because of non-conformance as seen through ansi-test results).</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I shot a quick email to the cl-test-grid and no red flags were raised [3].  Also, it looks like the Roswell project might be useful in bootstrapping implementations for testing [4].  Lastly, there's a thread in cl-test-grid discussing possible use of hosted testing providers which may be of some interest for multi-platform work [5].</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Do you think it makes sense to include ansi-test into cl-test-grid?</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://fare.tunes.org/files/asdf3/asdf3-2014.html">http://fare.tunes.org/files/asdf3/asdf3-2014.html</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid">https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid</a></div><div>[3] <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/cl-test-grid/SgT6MZBkjlI/discussion">https://groups.google.com/d/topic/cl-test-grid/SgT6MZBkjlI/discussion</a></span></div><div>[4] <a href="https://github.com/roswell/roswell">https://github.com/roswell/roswell</a></div><div>[5] <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/cl-test-grid/Kjgk1IQ_AFI/discussion">https://groups.google.com/d/topic/cl-test-grid/Kjgk1IQ_AFI/discussion</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Ian Tegebo</div>
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