From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: 05 Nov 2002 11:37:16 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036504601 3974 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 13:56:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1894C7-00011x-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:56:39 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1894KA-0004CF-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189409-00008n-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:44:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1892l8-0001wX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1892l5-0001vU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 07:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18921L-0001oh-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18921E-0005ir-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:37:16 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9137 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9137 Richard Stallman writes: > It may not have canned tests for everything, but I don't think writing > tests where necessary and providing explicit info which can't be > tested is so difficult. > > That is trivial, since we have already done it. What's there now is often incorrect, at least as it's used -- e.g. breakage in Solaris and Irix -- or otherwise dubious and untestable. I say this after getting far too familiar with it on multiple platforms. > Chances are we could easily use Autoconf for more than we do now. > It does take some work. If someone wants to do it, that is fine. I'm pleased that's OK, at least.