From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:31:22 +0000 Message-ID: <87ziyk969x.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87d1vpoees.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87r3k3igy1.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86io5ewbhg.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <8737wiyt75.fsf_-_@russet.org.uk> <87si4dsif4.fsf@cumego.com> <87oaf1wpkv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <876119sfa1.fsf@cumego.com> 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 1447237979 19333 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 10:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 11:32:58 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 1ZwShw-00074E-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:32:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwShv-0002hS-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwShE-0002bs-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:32:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwSgV-0002Lh-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:33741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwSgV-0002L2-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwSgV-0001kA-9x; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:31:23 +0000 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwSgU-0006Q6-NI; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:31:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <876119sfa1.fsf@cumego.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Przemys=C5=82aw?= Wojnowski"'s message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:41:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:194048 Archived-At: Przemys=C5=82aw Wojnowski writes: > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > [...] >>> Sooner or later all tests will be automated anyway. >> >> I doubt the latter is true (simply because some display related tests >> will always involve looking at emacs). > Ok, "all" was exaggerated a bit, but most things can be tested > automatically. > >> Having said that, I largely agree with you. We'd have something like? >> >> test/lisp >> test/src > [...] >> test/manual > I'm for "test/manual" here, but other names are fine too. > > (I would also change "test/src/" to "test/c", because "lisp" are sources > too, after all. But I don't insist on that, especially that it may result > in a flood here. ;-) ) I suggested that -- personally, I don't like having "src" in "test" because "src" is, well, source, not test. But the general feeling was that keeping it symmetrical makes more sense. Either way, it answers my use-case of a deterministic link between source and test. Phil