Re: Need Feedback: RequiredAddinAttribute

Good. Explaining helps me clarify it in my own head as well.

With 3.0, I imagine much of this issue going away: I believe
we can make it so that this is - as you initially suggested -
a compile-time check. More later.

Charlie

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> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 4:32 AM
> To: Charlie Poole
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> Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] Need Feedback: RequiredAddinAttribute
> 
> Charlie Poole wrote:
> > The general idea, of course, is that addins are downloaded 
> from third 
> > parties and NUnit can't tell that your intent was in typing [XYZ] 
> > without the addin installed. When we discussed this earlier 
> (I think 
> > on the dev list) some folks were concerned that a test might simply 
> > pass in the absence of an addin.
> 
> Thanks Charlie. I gave some thought to this, and I can see 
> what a pain it is, because we are using CustomAttributes that 
> aren't easy to just know if they are there or not.
> 
> I prefer the test way, but the declarative way seems Ok as 
> well. Seems to be the best balance of both worlds.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying that!
> 
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