[rucksack-devel] tests

[Arthur Lemmens]

Cyrus Harmon wrote:

> While I share Arthur's aversion to unnecessary package dependency
> creep, if using 5am enables someone like Attila to develop a nice
> test suite for rucksack, I'm all for it.

Me too ;-)

> One area in which other dependencies could be interesting to explore
> are not so much in the core rucksack, but rather as extensions to
> rucksack. In particular, I'm thinking of indexing. The current
> indexing strategy appears to be limited to b-trees. It would be
> interesting to consider how to do extensible a la GiST and to use
> things like spatial-trees for indexing of spatial data in rucksacks,
> for example.

Yes, I agree that would be interesting.  And I tried to design
Rucksack in such a way that such extensions can be integrated
well with the rest of the system.

Arthur