Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Yeah, the test suite seems pretty key. It also probably contains information about the proprietary extensions and contract work from clients and can likely never be released.

Proprietary test suite is a pretty interesting strategy actually. Very difficult for others to just steal your code and support effort and run if they have to start from zero to build a massive test suite.

I wonder how difficult it would be for some sort of tool to assume a particular original sqlite.c has full coverage and then suggest where additional tests are needed for patches?




Dr. Hipp has expressed interest in licensing TH3.

Perhaps a startup could/should pursue this to truly maintain a reliable fork.




Consider applying for YC's Summer 2025 batch! Applications are open till May 13

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: