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From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel Mailinglist <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: testing framework and package.el
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:50:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739slmmr9.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAA7CA2.5050302@fastmail.net> (Christian Ohler's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:47:22 +0930")

Christian Ohler <ohler+emacs@fastmail.net> writes:
>  On 5/10/10 2:18, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Christian Ohler<ohler+emacs@fastmail.net>  writes:
>>> Is there a deep reason
>>> why Emacs currently has test/ as a separate top-level directory?
>> Because the test files are not to be distributed with the tarball.
> Why not?  Isn't it true that whenever someone builds Emacs from source, it's
> possible that they are using a configuration (GCC version, configure flags,
> etc.) that hasn't been tested extensively, and it would make sense for them to
> run Emacs' self-tests before they waste their time installing an unstable Emacs?
> This seems to apply especially to the pretest tarballs, but also to the regular
> distribution to some extent.
>
> Christian.


Tests should be part of the repo, yes.

But for tarballs?

  Sebastian



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-27 15:18 testing framework and package.el Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-27 23:42   ` Sebastian Rose
2010-09-27 23:55   ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-01 13:01   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-02  3:53     ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-03 10:51       ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-03 20:52         ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 15:36           ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 16:48             ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-05  1:17               ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05  1:38                 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-05  1:50                 ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2010-10-05  3:31                   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-05  4:39                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-05 16:43                   ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05 23:18                     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-11  9:26                   ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12  3:02                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12  9:41                       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-12 13:39                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 16:28                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-12 17:37                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 17:54                               ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13  0:36                               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-13  9:03                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00                                 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-13 14:19                                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17  6:37                                     ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-17 14:54                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-18  6:55                                       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 14:36                         ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:41                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-13 10:00                             ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-13 14:13                               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-17  6:37                                 ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 14:19                       ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-12 17:58                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-12 18:13                           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-10-13 10:00                           ` Christian Ohler
2010-10-04 17:22             ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-05  0:01             ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-04 13:02     ` Masatake YAMATO
2010-10-05  3:29       ` Christian Ohler

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