Re: Update on ongoing work

[Michael Welzl < >]

I would think so?!  Unless I have a major misunderstanding...

On Jun 18, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Marco Faltelli < " class=""> > wrote:

What I meant is:

are these tests just a way to show that everything that HotCocoa does can be done in XTRA too, even without testing them? But now I understood that this might be a stupid question, (of course we have to give them something which is already tested and running) so I guess I'll test them :)

2018-06-18 13:39 GMT+02:00 Michael Welzl < " target="_blank" class=""> >:

> On Jun 18, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Marco Faltelli < " class=""> > wrote:
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> So, concerning the implementation of protocols in the XTRA language, I've implemented Timely (it's almost ready, except for some details) and between today and tomorrow we will start implementing Ledbat too.

Fantastic!


> The question now is: do we want these codes in order to make them run or just to show the reviewers that we can do everything that HotCocoa already does? The second case is much simpler and I'm confident that we can write all the 4 Hotcocoa protocols + Ledbat by Friday. In the second case, we need time for testing them and I think that there will be time just for a couple of all these protocols.

I don’t know what this means. “do we want these codes in order to make them run” - do you mean that you wrote an implementation without ever running it?  So the code exists but we have no clue if it works?
That wouldn't sound good to me ?!?!?!


> Related to this question, in the HotCocoa Github repository I found out that their Timely test is probably not working (it has a couple of grammar errors). So what comes to my mind is that they didn't tested it (maybe they just wanted to show the code?) or they may have uploaded and old version of the code.

Wow… but this is not how things should be done!


> Tomorrow we'll start the Hardware tests too, and we need someone to provide us a detailed list of the tests to be done.

Great, again - I hope others can fill in for this… even via email, AFAIK everyone is away?

Greetings from Brussels!
Michael