Re: call for more ert tests

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:18:48 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 1) The Linux kernel.  2) Both the Emacs Lisp language and the
> sorta-kinda C layer are novel ideas for most novices; the copyright
> assignment paperwork; the unfamiliar VC; the many unfamiliar concepts
> that Emacs has compared to most other projects (buffers, encodings); the
> interaction between the Lisp bits and the C bits; the way the C bits
> aren't compiled with -Wall, so you get little help from the compiler...
> You may be used to all the Emacs internals, but poking around in Emacs
> is pretty daunting compared to simple stuff like the Linux kernel.

I'm surprised you can say that an OS kernel is easier than Emacs.  As
for an extension language, many packages have that.

Bottom line, I'm not convinced.