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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	emacs-devel Mailinglist <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>,
	Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: testing framework and package.el
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:41:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=xjLcXS-3aF6Ab-uuBTzv6h-SBB85T+sMjaLZR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3rg6rl9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
>
> You're right that changing the convention is not too hard for the
> framework, but getting tests to be backward compatible is going to be
> annoying if you don't plan for it from the beginning.  In practice it
> very likely won't happen, and that's unfortunate.

I don't understand. Is there any other way supporting backward
compatibility of the test than actually running them from time to time
in older versions? Why does it matter very much where they are
located?



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-12  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-27 15:18 testing framework and package.el Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 23:42   ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 23:55   ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-01 13:01   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-02  3:53     ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-03 10:51       ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-03 20:52         ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 15:36           ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 16:48             ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-05  1:17               ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05  1:38                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05  1:50                 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-05  3:31                   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05  4:39                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-05 16:43                   ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05 23:18                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-11  9:26                   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12  3:02                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12  9:41                       ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-10-12 13:39                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 16:28                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-12 17:37                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 17:54                               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13  0:36                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-13  9:03                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00                                 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-13 14:19                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17  6:37                                     ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-17 14:54                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-18  6:55                                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 14:36                         ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:41                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00                             ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-13 14:13                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17  6:37                                 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 14:19                       ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:58                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 18:13                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13 10:00                           ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 17:22             ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05  0:01             ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 13:02     ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-10-05  3:29       ` Christian Ohler

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