From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Need for a Emacs regression test suite Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:45:45 +0200 Message-ID: <46E3C0C9.30409@gmail.com> References: <85myvws1px.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189333184 27330 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2007 10:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 10:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 20:19:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IUQr7-00062n-Gt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:45:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUJMk-0001C8-Ux for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUJMg-0001An-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUJMe-0001A7-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUJMe-0001A1-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUJMX-0007zC-LH; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:64235 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IUJMV-0003Xb-5Y; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:45:52 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <85myvws1px.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000773-3, 2007-09-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IUJMV-0003Xb-5Y. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IUJMV-0003Xb-5Y bd0e7721df3155cf4ed4551188a221e6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78311 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > I would suggest that you are careful not to invest too much > Emacs-specific work that might be lost ultimately due to legal > reasons, though this warning might appear somewhat premature at the > moment. Could not the testing framework be used by developers even if there are some legal problems with it?