[plt-dev] request for typed library

What would happen if we threw it out now (on the trunk, not on the
release branch)?

Robby

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Kathryn Gray wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17 Mar 2009, at 1:53:33, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Kathryn Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> The test-engine/scheme-tests.ss can be used as a library by programs
>>>> that aren't written in the teaching language currently; the test results
>>>> from this library appear in print statements instead of a window in
>>>> DrScheme.
>>>
>>> So does htdp/testing ... (test) . Why are we deprecating htdp/testing
>>> again?
>>
>>
>> The functionality doesn't need to (and isn't) going away.
>>
>> All htdp/testing does is reexport items from the other library, but unlike
>> test-engine/scheme-tests it can easily be added by students as a teach pack.
>>
>> If a student does this, and then calls (test) manually; all of their test
>> results appear twice. Why is this a desirable behavior to have? Why should
>> we be letting students add this as a teach pack?
>
>
> I remembered that it was a re-export of functionality. I had forgotten about
> the testing-twice part.
>
> Let's print "deprecated, require test-engine/scheme-tests" instead from
> htdp/testing. And by 5.0 we throw it out.
>
> Thanks -- Matthias
>
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