Re: Bash scripts in black and white

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Il 15/05/2010 8.33, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
>> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:23:40 +0200
>> From: Angelo Graziosi<angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
>> Cc: Emacs<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> PS. Sometime one gets the idea that Emacs's developers do not test
>> deeply (for example, with at least a clean bootstrap) their changes...
>> This would explain why the bugs tracker is at #6193 :-)

Sorry for this... but I could not resist... :-)

It is only my opinion and, perhaps, it comes out fro the idea of 
Programming one has in mind.

>
> I won't recommend drawing any conclusions from just the number of the
> last filed bug.  Especially since the Emacs bug database is shared
> with other projects (e.g., Coreutils).  As another data point, the GNU
> Make's bug number approaches 30,000...
>
> More to the point: Emacs maintainers do test as deeply as practically
> possible for each one of them.  A bootstrap is a lengthy procedure for
> someone who has maybe an hour a day to work on Emacs.  We are grateful
> to all those who do have resources to bootstrap and test on other
> systems, and report results here.

Often the bugs come from lack of bootstrap, and bootstrap (+PDF manual, 
+tar.xz of the binary distribution) takes about 25 minutes on Cygwin, 
which is only an emulator...

In any case, thanks for the work of developers.

Ciao,
Angelo.