Re: mock framework

by Aslak Hellesoy :: Rate this Message:

On 8/22/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@...> wrote:

> I'd like to ditch rspec's mock framework and let ppl use mocha or
> flexmock or RR (or others). RSpec's mocking framework doesn't really
> offer anything above those frameworks, and it's therefore an
> unnecessary burden to maintain.
>
> Here's my thinking:
>
> We break spec/mocks out into a separate project and release the one
> and only release when we release rspec 1.1.
>
> If you want to continue to use rspec mocks you can do so but you'll
> have to declare it in spec_helper (or somewhere global), but
> spec/mocks will be deprecated, and people would be encouraged to start
> using other frameworks.
>
> This isn't a slam dunk, btw - there are some dependencies on rspec's
> mock framework in the rails plugin that would have to be addressed
> with either one-off solutions or adapters for the other frameworks.
> One thing I do NOT want to do is have RSpec prefer one framework over
> another.
>
> Thoughts?

You mean throw away code that we all worked hard to make as good as possible?
Sounds good to me. +1 Ja.

If we break it out to a separate project, can I recommend we move it
to a separate RubyForge project at the same time? Yurii has registered
rspec-ext (RSpec Extras), which is currently empty. I've been
thinking about moving Spec::Ui and Spec::Distributed there. All these
sub projects could share the same svn, but with their own
trunk/tags/branches structure. This would allow for separate release
cycles. We could put Spec::Mock here.

Aslak

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