[asdf-devel] ASDF test-op question

[Robert P. Goldman]

The problem is that the asdf framework does not lend itself to returning things from ops (particularly if you need to roll up subsidiary results from sub-operations).
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Robert P. Goldman
Principal  Scientist, SIFT, LLC
www.sift.info

 ..... Original Message .......
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:18:50 +0200 "Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll" <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
>> To me, the most interesting advantage that I see in ASDF providing a
>> test operation, is that it should allow for automatic testing of
>> arbitrary software packages.
>
>Indeed! See http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs_lib.html
>
>> I do not see how providing a stream argument is relevant to that. Or do
>> you propose that people should /parse/ a test framework's output?
>
>Please, please do not force that upon us. It would be so EASY to ask
>each tester to just return a sequence or number with the tests that
>failed!
>
>Juanjo
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