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Re: On adding Kawa/Chibi R7RS test-suite to the r7rs-wip branch
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: On adding Kawa/Chibi R7RS test-suite to the r7rs-wip branch |
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Mon, 19 Jun 2017 01:25:47 -0400 |
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Hi Freja,
Freja Nordsiek <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mark Weaver's suggestion, I looked up the Kawa and Chibi R7RS-small
> test suites. Kawa uses Chibi's test-suite, though it is wrapped in a
> bit of extra code at the top. Kawa's license is not likely to be a
> problem, as it is a MIT license (
> https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Software-License.html ). But,
> Chibi's license is a modified BSD license (
> http://synthcode.com/license.txt ), which is compatible with the GPL (
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD ).
Sounds good, thanks for checking it!
> So, we could realistically take the Chibi test-suite (possibly with
> the Kawa modifications) and incorporate it into the r7rs-wip
> branch. The only question is whether to incorporate them as is or to
> modify them to use the same unit testing code as the rest of the unit
> tests in the guile test suite.
I would prefer to use Chibi's test suite with minimal changes. I
suppose that we will need to add some code at the top, and it is
possible that we'll need to make some other modifications.
Thanks!
Mark