Re: Time to tag the CVS

And adding to that, let's think in terms of rewriting the HTML tests for 
the updated release of DOM TS L1

On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 10:33 , Arnold, Curt wrote:

> Been a long road to this point.  Probably would be good to tag the CVS 
> at
> this point and continue on with the next milestones.  Any W3C 
> convention for
> tagging releases in the CVS?  If not, how about calling it L1Core-R1.0?
>
> Probably next step would be to identify the open issues with the L2 Core
> suite.  Obviously, the getElementsByTagName("*","whatever") issue needs 
> to
> be resolved.  I don't remember any other open issues off the top of my 
> head.
>
> The Mozilla HTML loader in DOMTestSuite.js was failing, but it might 
> have
> just been a nighly build issue.  It had worked with previous versions, I
> haven't tried it with the 0.9.8 milestone release.  What I had
> misinterpreted as a problem with getElementsByTagName()'s 
> case-sensitivity
> appears to be a failure to load the <body> element into the DOM (which
> causes massive numbers of test failures).
>
> The Mozilla XML implementation will crash in one of the DOM L2 Core 
> tests
> (about 2/3 of the way through).  There had been a similar situation 
> earlier
> with the DOM L1 tests.  It would be nice if someone could do a find the
> cases that are failing.  With the DOM L1, basically had to do a half
> interval search, splitting alltests.xml into smaller fragments until the
> failure was located.  I don't know if the Venkman JS debugger will let 
> you
> debug a script that large (MS Interdev 6 had problems with massive 
> scripts).
> If you have access to Mozilla's talkback data, if you can find a recent 
> log
> for carnold@houston.rr.com, it should point to the method that failed.
>
> I'll probably change test-to-jsunit.xsl to add an unload() call at the 
> end
> of any test that loads and modifies a document.  Closing the 
> corresponding
> window in that call would minimize the desktop clutter from running the 
> HTML
> tests.  It would do nothing in XML or SVG loaders.
>

Received on Thursday, 14 February 2002 16:45:58 UTC