CURL Wrapper: Congratulations Next up: std.serialize

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-28 19:43, dsimcha wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 December 2011 at 16:01:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> Running the unit tests:
>> ./unittest.sh
>>
>> Use "make" to compile the library or create an executable using rdmd.
>>
>> A few things to think about that need to be resolved:
>>
>> * This is quite a large library and I really don't want to put it all
>> into one module. I'm hoping it will be OK with a package
>
> So the package would be std.serialize?

Yeah, or std.serialization.

>>
>> * I would really like to keep the unit tests in their own modules
>> because they're quite large and the modules are already large without
>> the unit tests in them
>
> Sounds reasonable. It goes against the Phobos convention, but it sounds
> like you have a good reason to.
>
>>
>> * The unit tests use a kind of mini-unit test framework. Should that
>> be kept or removed?
>
> I haven't looked at it yet, but if it's generally useful, maybe it
> should be extracted and exposed as part of Phobos. I'd say keep it for
> now but keep it private, and later make a proposal for a full review to
> make it a public, official part of Phobos.

I think it is, don't know what others think. What it does is it catches 
AssertErrors so other unit tests can continue to run and then gives a 
nice report at the end.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg