Re: WebIDL Testing Plan: who is doing what (and why) by when?

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 10:54 +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 14/05/2013 03:09 , Cameron McCormack wrote:
> > I am not sure where the various IDL parser tools come in to this.  There
> > isn't a conformance class for IDL processors in the spec, and I'm not
> > sure whether the grammar in the spec being actually parseable is
> > something that is interesting to demonstrate by having programs that can
> > do that.  At least because we would then need to have some tests for
> > those programs to show that they are correct.
> 
> I don't think that we need to make a conformance class, test suite, 
> implementation report, or whatever else for parsers. I think the way to 
> use this information is to mention it on the Director's call as 
> additional evidence that there's a healthy, interoperable ecosystem 
> around WebIDL.

+1. As long as widlproc and webidl2.js can consume the idl from the
specifications, we're in a good shape and we can prove this easily.

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 21:54:21 UTC