[Gambas-user] Coming back to gb.test

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 10/05/2020 à 16:19, Tobias Boege a écrit :
> On Sun, 10 May 2020, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> I find the idea to hide gb.test not good. Instead, I would prefer that a
>>> user could choose the gb.test component as usual and that the IDE
>>> changes its behavior when gb.test is enabled and displays the
>>> appropriate controls.
>>
>> I disagree. 'gb.test' cannot be explicit, otherwise the component will be
>> loaded when not testing, and I don't want the project to be polluted by
>> something unneeded.
>>
> 
> The problem Christof is describing is that gb.test is not only for
> organizing and running tests in the project being tested. It plays
> a double role containing also the TestHarness-related stuff which
> would be used, for example, by the IDE to run another project under
> test mode and parse the TAP it emits into a summary of the test.
> 
> So, when a project is being tested (or a test written in the IDE),
> gb.test needs to be automatically loaded and otherwise not for the
> reason you state. But there are also certain projects which might
> legitimately load gb.test to get at the TAP parsing functionality,
> not the test running functionality.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobias
> 

So it's just a matter of unhide 'gb.test' now.

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Benoît Minisini