From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:44:18 +0300 Message-ID: <834kovbx7x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pn7oft7r.fsf@gnu.org> <5fd1bc533b4bfe603d106fb3ee816208@russet.org.uk> <83364keznu.fsf@gnu.org> <87imdgrlpq.fsf@telefonica.net> <83tuwzewxa.fsf@gnu.org> <87eeo3sxw0.fsf@telefonica.net> <47436f6137c965db141e290de6597fd5@russet.org.uk> <464a5bf221d1d77ea13381fb901931fd@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28694"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 21:44:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9Cy3-0007LO-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 21:44:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52270 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9Cy2-0002LW-VJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9Cxb-0001uv-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k9Cxb-0001GN-4J; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2261 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k9Cxa-0008L9-Ji; Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:44:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <464a5bf221d1d77ea13381fb901931fd@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254084 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:16:41 +0100 > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > > As a starter for 10 Who or what is "10"? > this is a file that tests features. The idea would > be to include it in the main (not test) lisp hierarchy, probably with a > single autoloaded command "feature-test" or something which would run > ert with an appropriate selector. This would make it available for use > in any Emacs distribution without having to include any files only found > in the repo. > > Obviously more features to go. I haven't worked out how to test the > existence of harfbuzz yet. (car (frame-parameter nil 'font-backend)) > I guess I need to test everything with a > "--without-" configuration option that is relevant on windows. > > Thoughts? Installable to emacs-27? As EMACS/lisp/feature.el? I don't understand why this has to be ert tests. Why not just a simple function that performs a series of tests and produces a report about each test? Also, shouldn't it be in admin/nt? It's w32-specific, right? What is the rationale for having it in lisp/ ?