[imp-hackers] Another topic: ANSI standard test suite

[Nikodemus Siivola]

2009/6/25 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>:
> It seems development of this test suite has been discontinued by its
> creator. Some time ago there was some motion towards creating a fork,
> enlarged and maintained, probably including implementation-specific
> tests as well (MOP tests would fit there well, Unicode would be great
> to have...) However, that effort disappeared.
>
> Could this be revived? It would be wonderful to have all tests suites
> in a single repository, perhaps including also benchmarking tools and
> other tools that help for automated testing on all platforms -- I know
> at least one project, Sage, that would be very happy about it!

I believe the ABCL folks currently maintain a fork:

  http://common-lisp.net/project/ansi-test/

I certainly would not be averse to a shared test suite, though I must
confess that I've so far been using the GCL tree of ansi-tests, and
not the fork -- for no good reason, I think.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus