From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ert.el --- Emacs Lisp Regression Testing Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:10:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47782302.5000201@fastmail.net> <477F6ADD.4000908@fastmail.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199607402 29117 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 08:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ohler+emacs@fastmail.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 09:17:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBQgn-0001TE-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:17:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQgQ-0003Vh-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQeW-0001fM-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQeU-0001dJ-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:14:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQeU-0001dA-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:14:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBQeU-0004LK-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:14:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBQa1-0001es-Ev; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:10:01 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:06:45 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86296 Archived-At: For a general-purpose display testing, we need to add code to the display engine (both its high-level device-independent part, and lower-level display backend) that would expose to a Lisp application the glyphs that are produced by the display engine and the backend-dependent display commands sent to the display API (termcap/terminfo for text terminal, X for X Window system, etc.). That sounds like a big job, and most of it for no purpose other than testing. I tend to doubt it would pay for itself in terms of future effort saved.