[kaffe] Testing for 1.1.0 release

Dalibor Topic robilad@yahoo.com
Tue May 20 07:07:01 2003


Hi Stuart,

--- Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.com> wrote:
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> 
> Timothy Stack wrote:
> > 
> > As soon as the CVS version is fixed, I'd like to start testing things 
> > for the release and have everyone report their results on this thread.  
> > Testing should be done with the developers/FullTest.sh script when 
> > possible and with whatever applications you use regularly.  When sending 
> > reports, try to be as verbose as possible, tell us the architecture, OS, 
> > compilers, and applications you used.  We'll try to fix what we can, but 
> > some things just can't be done without major changes.
> 
> I have a testcase for java.util.Abstract* that I've been intending to
> try out against Kaffe and Classpath, but I haven't been able to make
> time yet. I wrote the testcase in the hope of tracking down an error in
> nrdo (http://nrdo.sab39.org/) that causes errors in some cases.
> 
> The testcase is completely written and should be usable by anyone who's
> interested - the part I haven't found time for is building a recent
> version of Kaffe or Classpath and actually running the test and
> evaluating the results.
> 
> If anyone's interested, I can send them the tests. If not, I'll get to
> it sometime but it'll probably miss 1.1, of course.

I've started to merge Classpath's collection classes into kaffe, so I'd be glad
for more test cases ;) While it may not get ready for 1.1, it should allow
kaffe to run japitools soon ...

cheers,
dalibor topic

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