Re: Hixie tests and the CSS 2.1 Test Suite

On 16/06/10 17:58, fantasai wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 06:54 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>> On 15/06/10 20:03, fantasai wrote:
>>> On 06/15/2010 02:27 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> I know you were looking at importing a number of Hixie's old tests into
>>>> the CSS 2.1 test suite, and you'd said they had mappings with
>>>> link@rel='alternate'. Is there any better way to get a complete mapping
>>>> of old URL to new path except by running grep for 'hixie.ch' and then
>>>> parsing each of the files to get link@rel='alternate' from it?
>>>
>>> Nope. That's currently the best way. What were you planning to do with
>>> this information?
>>
>> Just try and create some mapping so that we can replace our copies of
>> them within our regression tracking system with the ones from the real
>> test suite without losing all history.
>
> Makes sense. If you create that mapping, can you publish it somewhere?
> (Like maybe ask hixie to put it up on his website.)

Yeah, sure.

> Note that some tests were simply deleted. I can't remember what all the
> reasons were, and unfortunately I did not track those in the SVN log.

You mean by that to imply they were once in SVN? I guess I could at 
least see which were in SVN at one stage.

> And for tests where both an HTML and an XML version existed, I only kept
> one. (I should have added two rel="alternate" links for those, but
> didn't think of it soon enough.)

And then there will be another version generated through your 
html5lib/lxml fun? I'll try and work out something, sometime. :)

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Received on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:14:28 UTC