On 29 February 2012 15:30, Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's have a deal. If someone writes the dump reader, I promise to try rewrite and familiarize myself with it. :-)

;-) Unfortunately, I don't have large amounts of time, but I'll see what I can do.

My main field of botwork is text replacements and spelling corrections with replace.py (as I am ill of spelling mistakes people do all the time) thus dump is a primary tool for me.

Of course. XML support is something that definitely should be added.

Well, tests is a big lesson for me to learn. I would appreciate an introduction to them as they are really useful.

The introduction is quite simple: instead of manually testing, you create a script that tests for you. Even though you have this in different flavours ('unit testing', 'integration testing', etc), the idea is the same: because you create an automatic test, you can check a week, a month or even 5 years later whether the feature you added or bugfix you made still works as it should. Combined with testing before commit / automatic testruns ('continuous integration'), this makes bugs much easier to prevent.

And this is my last mail for tonight ;-)

Best,

Merlijn