[Monotone-devel] Re: Testsuite status (SoC)

[Bruce Stephens]

"Alex Queiroz" <address@hidden> writes:

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> I don't know what you think the costs may be. Lua was designed for
> very easy interfacing with C (much easier than Python), so it was
> utterly painless.

Easier, but still not trivial.  It's surely still four or five lines
per function?

(Amusingly, Python's *really* easy, if you use Boost.Python.  It's a
frighteningly slick library.  Not lightweight, though.)

> And we won a lot in flexibility, such as putting related test
> functions in different Lua modules and running only the tests we
> want at a given time.

Ah, OK.  Yes, that's a neat thing to do, that can be tricky to do
without fiddling.  I tend to think of "unit tests" as being tests that
run so fast that you don't need to worry about running a subset---just
run the whole lot.  However, that's not universally the case (and for
monotone it's not).