Re: Test base library stable branch please

[David Ayers]

David Ayers schrieb:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> 
>>Could people please make an effort to check out the stable branch 
>>(http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/libs/base/branches/base-1_13_0/)
>>of the base library from subversion and check that none of the 
>>backported bugfixes is faulty.
>>
>>I would like to make a bugfix release early in January... and we 
>>obviously need to do some testing.
>>
>>If anyone knows of any bugfixes (that's fixes only, not changes/
>>additions) in trunk which have not been backported and should be, 
>>please let me know.
> 
> 
> I've build:
> make-1_13_0
> base-1_13_0 (from branches as opposed to tags)
> gui-0_11_0
> back-0_11_0
> gorm-1_1_0
> gdl2 (trunk which I hope to release once the next wave of core releases
> is out)
> 
> And these are my test results:
>       2 COMPILEFAIL
> COMPILEFAIL: SelfContainedHeaders/GNUstepBase/GSIArray.h.m
> COMPILEFAIL: SelfTests/compile.m
> (These are supposed to fail)
> 
>     516 COMPLETED
>       1 Connection
>      12 FAIL
> PASS: +[NSNumberFormatter alloc] returns a NSNumberFormatter
> FAIL: default format same as Cocoa
> FAIL: round up for fractional part >0.5
> FAIL: round down for fractional part <0.5
> FAIL: numeric and space padding OK
> FAIL: prefix and suffix used properly
> FAIL: negativeFormat used for -ve number
> PASS: notANumber special case
> FAIL: format string of length 1
> COMPLETED: base/NSNumberFormatter/basic.m
> (I suppose these haven't backported)
> 

Actually I get these failures on the trunk also... So I'll need to
investigate... (possibly associated with my locale settings for decimal
points?)

base/NSNumberFormatter/basic.m:
FAIL: default format same as Cocoa
FAIL: round up for fractional part >0.5
FAIL: prefix and suffix used properly
FAIL: negativeFormat used for -ve number
FAIL: format string of length 1

Cheers,
David