From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: testing framework and package.el Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:54:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87tyladfnf.fsf@gmx.de> <4CA5DBA2.4050102@fastmail.net> <87tyl5i737.fsf@gmx.de> <4CA86026.1020000@fastmail.net> <87vd5jvw1q.fsf@gmx.de> <4CA9F483.8020000@fastmail.net> <87lj6dewf7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4CAA7CA2.5050302@fastmail.net> <87zkut8d7y.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <4CB2D84E.5010405@fastmail.net> <87d3rg6rl9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <877hhn7co1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874ocr71n2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286906107 2540 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2010 17:55:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Sebastian Rose , Stefan Monnier , Christian Ohler , emacs-devel Mailinglist To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 12 19:55:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P5j43-0006ja-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5j43-0008PT-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57461 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5j3h-0008NG-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:54:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5j3Y-0007Xg-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:63805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5j3Y-0007Xc-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so1185322qyk.0 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XX89Sr7AxVoPWaStoYX9+1ulKywAwf5LPXNCUosZnpw=; b=K237oU32MHzAhnlOjNBCA5JUU3eBtFqpzQ9WHEwqmoaXPu+D9kIuw8VXWWSzkOUw5U mosfy4cpXxDn/31Abj12tUr3lJJGs8qrzveNnJP/MwWHnaR5c4EaOQgrLhQLKb1Aovcf ifn6wuRgrWji98/C2R9NiebMU+xu1ZMA3RLIE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JWgZdnTGeN473DedSqNDAujdzpUcm/tpbPcVW3AKmomIjtieML1IZvZR8CuJrw3WO7 wYzI9YY2j86LRi9Gy0JDsm2qqawcGwFVmwCbwbonuzUkOCoN0VwhXMkhiEpPOx6Gu5ep knroIBZFHJmPs7r7cNoAezMvgmNtA35GfpP+s= Original-Received: by 10.229.87.140 with SMTP id w12mr6534018qcl.125.1286906071490; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.220.195 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:54:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874ocr71n2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131640 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull w= rote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > > =C2=A0> Wouldn't it be better than to setup the tests so that it is easy = to > =C2=A0> run them with old versions of Emacs - regardless of where the tes= ts > =C2=A0> are located? > > Better than what? =C2=A0As Christian points out, typically there are shel= l > scripts/.bat files and Makefiles that need to be fixed up. What I suggested was to avoid that situation. Make sure that nothing in the tests are dependent on the test location.