From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: filenotify.el Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:13:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87zjtdxt26.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87d2ra9z4x.fsf@gmx.de> <7765700.YGZAUaTNB1@descartes> <87y595uthx.fsf@gmx.de> <51ED774C.4010309@lanl.gov> <87r4eqla94.fsf@gmx.de> <87a9ldzrul.fsf@gmx.de> <874nblz9gg.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374588857 28355 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2013 14:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 23 16:14:15 2013 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 1V1dLz-0004Iu-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:14:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1dLy-0000vs-JS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1dLu-0000nJ-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1dLp-0006V3-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:56643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1dLp-0006Ut-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([93.202.51.72]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0Lm3H7-1USZVz2bjN-00ZcDb for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:14:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:57:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:fIAegaU7AMw1Ma69eKoBZbILfhR6joQKytHpowzjHZteisIFEiN CKF21MEFvfMbPBREQZlcF7uZnJVKKdMY+tN/7fDSIe6dP7/EKYlezUoHZ5UFNHTMoO6aw/D hZtE8Du796lXFbuxVMwYTR1WWv/8TSF3Q+RLKzQxesuTAylQzYxmzNeUZB+hL+qCMro55Pc R/Bis2IMHZgm6lMIVLiTA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 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:162094 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Btw, file-notify-supported-p would ease to skip ert tests, if file >> notification is not available for the local or remote case. > > I don't see why. You can just as well say that "failure for lack of > support" is an acceptable result. Of course. I have just said, it would be more convenient to write such tests with file-notify-supported-p, that's all. But maybe we should not design wrt to test cases :-) As said, I don't care too much whether we keep file-notify-supported-p. Your decision ... > Stefan Best regards, Michael.