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

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Nikodemus
Siivola<nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
> I believe the ABCL folks currently maintain a fork:
>
>  http://common-lisp.net/project/ansi-test/

Ok, that was not really polite. They contacted me, suggested that they
would try to make a common effort with all maintainers involved and
they took their own path or saying a word...

> 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.

Me too, but I have found serious problems with the current test suite.
For instance, expected accuracy, too limited tests for certain
functions, and conditionalization on our implementation that has
become obsolete.

Juanjo

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