Re: Brain Dump of Towards FIT 1.0 OpenSpace session

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Chou" <[email protected]>
To: "FIT Developers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: [Fit-dev] Brain Dump of Towards FIT 1.0 OpenSpace session


> --- Jim Little <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Al Chou
> > > Rather than ... having FIT re-implemented in numerous
> > > languages, why not have one core FIT that allows fixtures
> > > to be written in whatever language you choose?
> >
> > That's an interesting idea.  But would it work?  Consider that we need
> > to be able to write fixtures that interface with the system under test.
> > Those fixtures need to be in the programmer's native language, as he may
> > not know Java.  We also want (I presume) to make Fit inviting for people
> > to adopt... can we use this approach and still do that?
> >
> > Jim
>
> I think it would go a long way toward that, but never having implemented
such a
> thing myself, I can't say for certain.  It is fortunate that at least one
(the
> original) version of FIT is written in a language (viz., Java) that many
other
> languages have been implemented in (at least once) and for which a
third-party
> API has been defined explicitly for interfacing to.  C certainly fits the
first
> criterion, but not necessarily the second.  Ruby, for instance, does not
fit
> the first criterion.

I don't think that's an issue. See my response to your other post. I may see
what I can do with it, just using Python for now. More tomorrow.

John Roth
>
>
> Al
>
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