Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help)

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Przemysław Wojnowski <esperanto@cumego.com> writes:

> phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> [...]
>>> Sooner or later all tests will be automated anyway.
>>
>> I doubt the latter is true (simply because some display related tests
>> will always involve looking at emacs).
> Ok, "all" was exaggerated a bit, but most things can be tested
> automatically.
>
>> Having said that, I largely agree with you. We'd have something like?
>>
>> test/lisp
>> test/src
> [...]
>> test/manual
> I'm for "test/manual" here, but other names are fine too.
>
> (I would also change "test/src/" to "test/c", because "lisp" are sources
> too, after all. But I don't insist on that, especially that it may result
> in a flood here. ;-) )


I suggested that -- personally, I don't like having "src" in "test"
because "src" is, well, source, not test. But the general feeling was
that keeping it symmetrical makes more sense.

Either way, it answers my use-case of a deterministic link between
source and test.

Phil