Re: mock framework

> On 8/22/07, aslak hellesoy <aslak.hellesoy@...> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> As long as Yurii is on board that's fine.
>