Change an existing method from another project

Hi,

I'm going to provide a new way to write unit tests without having prefixed test methods with the word 'test'. As I don't want to write another unit test framework, I need to change some methods of SUnit (as well of Autotest).

Is there any way to do that from an external project without creating a specific fork of theses projects?

Mig

Ok,

I will extend SUnit to integrate my extensions.
(It is unfortunate because there is just only one or two methods to change.)

Le 11/06/2011 19:17, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :

Miguel

please do the following:
       - Fork and copy and past SUnit and extend it
       - In the past I modified SUnit and after people complained that it was not the right version and my extensions got
       lost when we reloaded the latest version of SUnit.
So let us invent some new way to write tests :).

Stef

Hi,

I'm going to provide a new way to write unit tests without having prefixed test methods with the word 'test'. As I don't want to write another unit test framework, I need to change some methods of SUnit (as well of Autotest).
Is there any way to do that from an external project without creating a specific fork of theses projects?

Mig

Le 13/06/2011 17:57, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :

On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Miguel Moquillon wrote:

Ok,

I will extend SUnit to integrate my extensions.
(It is unfortunate because there is just only one or two methods to change.)

so be ready that your code will not work when the next version of Sunit show up.
I really think that this is better to fork one version where we can do what we want.

Thus I have two possible solutions:
- provide a direct contribution to the SUnit project with my code,
- or fork SUnit to a new project (PharoUnit?) so that anybody can enhance the unit test framework for Pharo.

In fact, I don't know if the Pragma implementation in Pharo is specific to the Squeak/Pharo smalltalk dialect. In that case, I think it would be better to fork SUnit as my changes will be based upon pragmas.

Mig

On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:30 AM, laurent laffont wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Miguel Moquillon <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Le 13/06/2011 17:57, Stéphane Ducasse a écrit :
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Miguel Moquillon wrote:
>
> Ok,
>
> I will extend SUnit to integrate my extensions.
> (It is unfortunate because there is just only one or two methods to change.)
>
> so be ready that your code will not work when the next version of Sunit show up.
> I really think that this is better to fork one version where we can do what we want.
> Thus I have two possible solutions:
> - provide a direct contribution to the SUnit project with my code,
> - or fork SUnit to a new project (PharoUnit?) so that anybody can enhance the unit test framework for Pharo.
>
> In fact, I don't know if the Pragma implementation in Pharo is specific to the Squeak/Pharo smalltalk dialect. In that case, I think it would be better to fork SUnit as my changes will be based upon pragmas.
>
>

> Indeed http://squeaksource.com/SUnit is global Read / Write, creator/admin = Marcus Denker, so I suppose you can submit a package/branch in this repo safely.
>

But keep in mind that the SUnit from Pharo is not regularly saved there... maybe it should? But than, without automatisation this is too much work.

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