From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs test suite Date: 19 Jan 2003 18:55:45 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xy95h10ta.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <1042962662.19519.12.camel@lan1> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042995426 2894 80.91.224.249 (19 Jan 2003 16:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:57:06 +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 18aIkp-0000kS-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:57:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18aIvI-00027A-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aIlT-00041J-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aIko-0003Vv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aIkS-0002tD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:56:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aIkK-0002A3-00; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 61C6E7C017; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:56:23 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-cc: Robert Anderson Original-cc: Eli Zaretskii X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10871 Jason Rumney writes: > Robert Anderson writes: > > > > That's cool, but why do you need the branch to be local? > > > > Well, I don't "need" it to be - this is only a matter of convenience. > > But it would be nice if this didn't even require discussion or Richard > > having to make a decision apriori about whether my work is credible > > before he has even seen it. If the branch was local, I would just get > > to work, and everyone could worry about these decisions later when it > > was more than vaporware, saving valuable coordinate effort. > > Read the section of the CVS manual about vendor branches. Perhaps > that would give the functionality you want. If we keep the test suite in a separate directory tree, e.g. emacs/test, I don't see *any* reason to make CVS branches to place the test suite in CVS; like the emacs/admin directory, we don't have to distribute the test scripts with emacs, unless we want to do that. But if we get a substancial amount of tests, I think that advising the user to run the test suite after building/installing emacs on a new system would be a good thing. Something simple like "make test" would be a good interface. In addition, I believe that all of us write small scripts / sample code to test and debug various things, so if we had a test/manual directory below test/, we could put our own informal tests there -- and maybe our "auto-test experts" could pick up that work and integrate it in the auto tests. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk