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

[Don]

BCS wrote:
> 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.

It could probably be done. EG, all of the D2-specific bugs are probably 
all in bugzilla. But I'm not sure that there's much value in going 
through them. Certainly not until we get some more people regularly 
providing patches.