Re: unit tests and related matters

Dear Ross, 

You will be better off installing a newer version.
There is an SWI PPA and dependencies for building from sources.

Have you seen: 
	http://www.swi-prolog.org/build/Debian.html
	?

Regards,

Nicos Angelopoulos
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http://bioinformatics.nki.nl/~nicos/

On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:09:23 -0700
Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote:

> What's the best way to do unit tests?
> 
> Searching led to http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/package/plunit.html, but it 
> doesn't seem to come with my installation or be available as a Debian package.  
> I'm using Debian wheezy amd64, which has SWI Prolog 5.10.4.
> 
> Eventually I  found http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/packages/plunit.git.
> 
> If that is appropriate to use, should I go with the current version, or the 
> one tagged for V5.10.4?
> 
> I assume I then need to put that in an appropriate spot, probably compile it, 
> and make sure prolog knows how to find it.  Any tips on that would be great, 
> otherwise I can probably figure it out from the fine manual.
> 
> It would be nice if this kind of stuff were more obvious to  the uninitiate.  
> Possibilities include
> *on the front page "a rich set of contributed modules" with a link (yes I know 
> the contrib link is on the left; that's how I eventually found them).
> *A FAQ entry about how to locate, get and use contributed libraries, and 
> possibly other stuff on git.
> * Expand http://www.swi-prolog.org/git.html to include 3rd party libraries.
> *  http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/package/plunit.html describes how to get 
> the library, or at least links to the software.
> 
> Thanks.
> Ross Boylan
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