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Re: designing a test suite for multiple implementations

To: Audrey Tang <audreyt@audreyt.org>
Subject: Re: designing a test suite for multiple implementations
From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:48:41 +0100
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:44:38PM +0800, Audrey Tang wrote:

> That's assuming that the new repo, say, http://svn.perl.org/ 
> perl6tests/, can
> give out commit permissions to parrot and pugs committers, yes.
> 
> But as Jerry's initial motivation was moving Perl 6 tests to a more  
> official
> location, and that http://svn.perl.org/perl6/ is the official repo  
> for the
> Perl 6 design documents, I wonder what's the advantage of hosting the  
> tests
> in a separate repository.  Can you elaborate on that?

I thought that it might be easier to audit different committer bit policies
if the repositories were different, instead of simply one being a subtree of
another. That was all.

Nicholas Clark


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