[Implementors] Moving tests to an implementation-agnostic place

James Graham jg307 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Jul 27 10:48:44 PDT 2007


Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:26:40 +0200, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Given that those tests are shared by other implementations, I propose
>> they're moved to the html5 project on Google Code (which already
>> has an empty tests/ directory in its repository), or maybe even a
>> new html5-tests project.
> 
> Moving them to html5 makes some sense to me although I would like html5 to  
> gain some project members from html5lib if that is to happen (including  
> yourself, for instance). I don't see much value in a separate html5-tests  
> project.
> 
> On SVN update it would still be nice if the tests were imported into the  
> html5lib tree though. I believe Sam has some tricks to enable that (he  
> already made it work for parser-tests in the html5 project).
> 
> 
I have to run now but I'll just mention that DanC was talking about 
using some sort of distributed version control system for HTML 5 related 
tests. Maybe this would be a good time to move to that sort of system.

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