Walter's test suite (was: D should disallow forward references)

[BCS]

Reply to Stewart,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Leandro,
>> 
>>>> I have a copy of Walter's internal DMD test suite, so I could
>>>> actually
>>>> 
>>> What was the reason not to release the test suite? Copyright?
>>> 
>> bingo. The code comes from all kinds of palaces and IIRC Walter
>> doesn't want to track down the authors of every little bit of code.
>> 
> Maybe what can be done is to split the test suite.  The free portion,
> which would be released, would consist of:
> - tests written by Walter himself
> - tests derived from those posted on Bugzilla
> - any other tests that their contributors declared to be PD
> - anything that's too small to be copyrightable
> The other portion, consisting of everything that doesn't fit in these
> categories, would remain internal.
> 
> Stewart.
> 

I might be the case that Walter doesn't have the records needed to split 
it like that, that is he may not even know where most of the test cases came 
from.