ANSI Tests on Dolphin 4

> I'm doing some work that will use the ANSI DateAndTime and Duration
> classes (and will probably need to define a number of other temporal
> classes as well). I decided to check out the ANSI Test Suite to help in
> getting up to speed. Has anyone gotten the tests to run with Dolphin 4?
> I thought that the tests were set up to run on all dialects, but there
> appears to still be a number of specific issues. Some details below.
>
> I started by installing the package at
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/DOWNLOAD/pepe/Pepe-Dol-08-07.pac
> into Dolphin 4. The wiki page just identifies the package as being for
> Dolphin, with no mention of version numbers. Doing a PepeProgram install
> of the ansi tests from the file at
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/DOWNLOAD/pepe/ansi.pepe has a
> number of problems.
>
> It tries to define the protocolNamesOrNil and protocolNamesOrNil:
> methods in ClassOrganizer, however, Dolphin 4 doesn't have any
> ClassOrganizer class. I hacked in a stubbed class for Class Organizer
> and got the ansi.pepe file to at least load. But other problems crop up
> with methods already in Dolphin that were overwritten. The change to
> ClassDescription>>protocols, messes up the opening of a
> ClassHierarchyBrowser. The overriding of the existing String>>trimBlanks
> method (which tries to use a not understood withBlanksTrimmed method)
> causes trouble in a number of places. Trying to actually run some of the
> tests has BlockClosure not understanding #ifError: used in
> MainTestCase>>runCase.
>
> Not knowing how many other problems there might be, I thought it might
> be a good time to stop and ask. Is there another version of the tests
> somewhere better suited for Dolphin? Or is it just that they haven't yet
> been made compatible with it?

> "Bill Dargel" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
> news:[hidden email]...
> > I'm doing some work that will use the ANSI DateAndTime and Duration
> > classes (and will probably need to define a number of other temporal
> > classes as well). I decided to check out the ANSI Test Suite to help in
> > getting up to speed. Has anyone gotten the tests to run with Dolphin 4?
> > I thought that the tests were set up to run on all dialects, but there
> > appears to still be a number of specific issues. Some details below.
> >
> > I started by installing the package at
> > http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/DOWNLOAD/pepe/Pepe-Dol-08-07.pac
> > into Dolphin 4. The wiki page just identifies the package as being for
> > Dolphin, with no mention of version numbers. Doing a PepeProgram install
> > of the ansi tests from the file at
> > http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/DOWNLOAD/pepe/ansi.pepe has a
> > number of problems.
> >
> > It tries to define the protocolNamesOrNil and protocolNamesOrNil:
> > methods in ClassOrganizer, however, Dolphin 4 doesn't have any
> > ClassOrganizer class. I hacked in a stubbed class for Class Organizer
> > and got the ansi.pepe file to at least load. But other problems crop up
> > with methods already in Dolphin that were overwritten. The change to
> > ClassDescription>>protocols, messes up the opening of a
> > ClassHierarchyBrowser. The overriding of the existing String>>trimBlanks
> > method (which tries to use a not understood withBlanksTrimmed method)
> > causes trouble in a number of places. Trying to actually run some of the
> > tests has BlockClosure not understanding #ifError: used in
> > MainTestCase>>runCase.
> >
> > Not knowing how many other problems there might be, I thought it might
> > be a good time to stop and ask. Is there another version of the tests
> > somewhere better suited for Dolphin? Or is it just that they haven't yet
> > been made compatible with it?
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Ralph Johnson is, as far as I am aware, the one who has been working on this
> most recently.
>
> http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/CampSmalltalk/ANSI+compatibility+at+CS4
>
> tells you what he said about this last January.
>
> Ralph, I would love to see what you have at this point, too :-).
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter van Rooijen
>
> > Thanks for any info,
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Bill Dargel            [hidden email]
> > Shoshana Technologies
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> >
> >