Re: mock framework

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> On Aug 22, 2007, at 6:11 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
>
> Just say whom I should add to project admins.
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