From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: maintaining etags Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 19:21:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2wdlqb3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5546DD4A.2080709@yandex.ru> <87r3qvnld1.fsf@gmail.com> <5548E08A.4090305@yandex.ru> <87mw1jndul.fsf@gmail.com> <554964CE.3040809@yandex.ru> <87oalxn756.fsf@gmail.com> <554AAD41.6060506@yandex.ru> <87vbg4lgn6.fsf@gmail.com> <554CB069.8090002@yandex.ru> <87sib7j9yf.fsf@gmail.com> <554CE8B2.7080408@yandex.ru> <87fv76kj0s.fsf@gmail.com> <83fv76p6ts.fsf@gnu.org> <831tiqox9e.fsf@gnu.org> <83twvmndr1.fsf@gnu.org> <554E0484.9010702@yandex.ru> <83mw1dophc.fsf@gnu.org> <554E8294.8070500@yandex.ru> <836180o5da.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq0fkqhj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431447724 2759 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2015 16:22:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eller.helmut@gmail.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Francesco =?iso-8859-1?Q?Potort=EC?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 18:21:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCwO-0004z4-0s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 18:21:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43930 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCwN-0004Eu-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 12:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCwJ-0004EJ-O0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 12:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCwF-0003x9-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 12:21:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:46240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCwE-0003wv-SC; Tue, 12 May 2015 12:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NO800D00VYU1P00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 12 May 2015 19:21:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NO800CIIW47UDB0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 12 May 2015 19:21:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186459 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 13:17:06 +0200 > From: Francesco Potort=EC > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, dgutov@yandex.ru, eller.helmut@gmail.= com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > >> Anyway, when I used to patch Etags, I always run a regression te= st, > >> then updated the regression test with the case the patch was mea= nt to > >> address. The tests that I used can be found in the tree at > >> , > >> together with some garbage. The tests are invoked from the Make= file as > >> the default target. If, as I hope, someone will care to install= the > >> regression tests in the Emacs tree I can assist with answers to > >> questions.=20 > > > >Thanks, I will definitely run the test suite, I didn't know about = it. > >I will also look intyo adding it to the Emacs regression suite. >=20 > I had mentioned it to Stefan too, but I did not get down to prepari= ng it > until I stumbled upon this thread. >=20 > It works simply by running the just compiled etags on a series of s= ource > code snippets, and sometimes on whole source files, and compare the > generated tags file with the one generated by a stable version. >=20 > It would be great if it were incorporated in the Emacs test suite o= r > anyway made available to Emacs developers. I've run it (no regressions ;-), and prepared a stand-alone test suit= e extracted from that tarball. I will commit it to the Emacs repositor= y soon. Thanks.