Re: Unit tests are functional again

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

ps. I also fixed a bunch of -Wall warnings in the process.

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 02:53 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> I artificially made them work again by commenting out some things.
> 
> Why did I do that? Simple: the imap1.tinymail.org IMAP account is being
> used by our good friends at the Modest team. Although the website states
> quite clearly that this account is intended for unit testing only, it's
> also true that it's the only account that will not be shut-off each
> hour.
> 
> Which is probably why imap1 is being used as test account :-)
> 
> However, this will change soon. Each unit test launch (make check) will
> automatically restart the server (some script that will be placed in the
> Makefile.am) and that will effectively reset the mailboxes of it.
> 
> I hope our good friends understand that this is the initial purpose of
> that IMAP1 account, and that this purpose has never changed :) nor wont.
> 
> The imap2.tinymail.org account, though, is suitable for development-
> testing and making aggressive changes to both the folder structure and
> folder content of the account.
> 
> I will consider setting the imap2 account to be reset only once or twice
> per day, rather than hourly. I just hope that this doesn't mean that
> somebody will start using the account to transfer his illegal stuff from
> one part of the globe to another with (the hourly reset is intended to
> make this a little less practical for such idiots).
> 
> 
> Anyway .. the unit tests both compile and now pass 100% (although that's
> artificially as ~ 5 of the test have been effectively disabled), the
> Design By Contract clauses are also compiling now, and all correct too.
> 
> 
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