RE: New runner

["Jeroen Frijters" <jeroen@sumatra.nl>]

Thomas Zander wrote:
> Hi, Jeroen. Thanks for your reply.
> I've just looked into this; when I delete the config and the
> SimpleTestHarness I get compile errors in (only) 9 tests.
> The following are easy to fix and run correctly with some 
> modifications
> (read: removal of the cast):
>     gnu/testlet/java/io/FileDescriptor/jdk11.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/io/FileReader/jdk11.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/io/FileWriter/jdk11.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/io/RandomAccessFile/jdk11.java
> 
> These are a bit more difficult; but I believe them to be 
> broken by design or not usable for a 'java -jar' kind of
> test anyway.
> I'll be more specific:
> These 4 tests each test some socket stuff based completely on the
> assumtion that there is someone (an smtp host) listening on a
> pre-configured host/port.  This is quite an assumtion that is not very
> usable in the proposed (portable) test-jar.
>     gnu/testlet/java/net/Socket/SocketTest.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/net/Socket/jdk12.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/net/Socket/jdk13.java
>     gnu/testlet/java/net/Socket/jdk14.java

I don't think they're inherently unusable from a jar, I'd like to see a
gnu.testlet.config version that reads the settings from a properties
file (or whatever) instead of hardcoding them in the auto dance.

> The following test tests things like being able to open a 
> file we ship in mauve (in the same package) and other stuff thats
> really really basic. (like File.seperator) Quite useless to test
> in an environment that is shipped in a jar :-)
>     gnu/testlet/java/io/File/jdk11.java

This is more tricky to handle, but hopefully we can figure out a way to
get this test in as well.

Regards,
Jeroen