From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: burden of maintainance Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:15:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83si5s4e4c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560CEA6A.9000907@online.de> <834miaa847.fsf@gnu.org> <87twq9a3d3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <560F78F2.4030400@cumego.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443856564 26280 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2015 07:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 07:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, andreas.roehler@online.de, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 09:15:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiH2s-0008EI-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 09:15:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiH2s-0002ep-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34609) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiH2U-0002ed-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiH2R-0001s3-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:37506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZiH2R-0001rU-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 03:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVM00H00ULDJG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:15:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVM00HARUTLAT60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:15:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <560F78F2.4030400@cumego.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190770 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Andreas R=C3=B6hler > , Emacs-devel > From: Przemys=C5=82aw Wojnowski > Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 08:42:58 +0200 >=20 > > "make check" is part of the GNU Coding Standards. See: > Maybe it should be changed to conform to the rest of the world, mak= ing > it intuitive at the same time. >=20 > IMHO the name should reveal its intent and "check" doesn't tell wha= t is > it checking (maybe whether environment is ready for compilation?). >=20 > "make test" is understandable and intuitive, especially to anyone w= ho > has any experience building software in other environments. If they both do the same, we have the best of all worlds, no? So why continue arguing?