[Gardeners] Testing framework for SUL

[Steve Freitas]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 19:37 -0700, Chris Dean wrote:
> What's next on our list?
> 
> - Documentation standard?
> - A repo where we can check in code/send patches.
> - A naming convention for the different functions, packages, etc?
> - A roadmap to our first version?
> - A separate mailing list so we can stop boring everyone else on Gardeners?

I'd like to see a list of suggested libraries, something like Tim Daly
proposed when he followed Steele 2nd Ed, but hopefully instead of only
copying out of a book or webpage (Python's library comes to mind,
python-on-lisp notwithstanding), I'd also like to see people suggest
libraries that would solve problems for them, and those should be
prioritized. I'd emphasize starting  with a small list, with the focus
on what people actually need.

For example, I doubt anyone else here would have an immediate need for
it, but I'd dig writing a simple quaternion library, so I'd like to
stick that on the list. (Tangent: I'd like to have somebody volunteer to
advise me a little on the API design, since I'm such a noob.)

I'd also like to see someone with an eye for this take that list and see
where adding more primitive libraries would make sense as support for
the suggested higher-level libraries. (At some point somebody's gonna
need to put their design stamp on this thing so the result doesn't feel
like a fragmented, inconsistently conceived set of functions.) Then your
roadmap is mostly done, and the documentation standard will be required
as writing docs is probably the next logical step, na?

Steve