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: gnulib strftime imported into Emacs Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 01:34:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4D45F788.1020101@cs.ucla.edu> <83r5btg1td.fsf@gnu.org> <4D466C8D.2020102@cs.ucla.edu> <4D473584.6010205@cs.ucla.edu> <4D474C57.1070103@cs.ucla.edu> <4D4752A1.3020201@cs.ucla.edu> 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 1296520502 30079 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2011 00:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 01:34:57 2011 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 1Pk4Cm-000727-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:34:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51570 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk4Cg-0003Rq-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:34:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54335 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pk4Cc-0003Rk-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk4Cb-0002fE-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:53856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk4CZ-0002ew-PF; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:34:35 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so2816262eyh.0 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:34:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rd7py84cAHcQBJJ1+Yo9EDl6XXYzikJSrNFv+GmBgA0=; b=uz3DzVzSGhYVYkAbw3S2LRUw6rd8dilc3QH/7QbQrJt2PowKkZAJ0DB5gSh2z7MuTi rfzIELgaAQOHoZ4EJ1qhCVfun0mNU98IqlhWO7fVOGtCk6kVWFcZQz2Nw8A2YNxqs9nO G1JNPWVragWAC6UGbHJvh/cQYN98mY7p+wEOg= 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=v64zm6iGW11rb1OSsWmEZOIOugEk//2/go3NoCyDMFyV+3X+7Vv3EvrZKAUv05uIPA 8AMkYTkJ6GpKQkDQ6TIG4wIEweeyDfQewYuKRMJcGL2ivrPsVL4q/3iJxyQcTkL12d2u GkZCpp8XcJcbPUMCXsYcLtdGcoIGzM52zDr/E= Original-Received: by 10.213.3.3 with SMTP id 3mr288300ebl.54.1296520474678; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:34:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.36.11 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:34:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D4752A1.3020201@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:135370 Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 01/31/11 16:15, Lennart Borgman wrote: >> Perhaps it would be easier to publish the branch on Launchpad for >> example? If you do that it is easy to automate the build so at least >> the build process can be checked. > > Let's try doing it by patch-emailing first instead. =C2=A0That's less wor= k > for me, and I expect just as reliable. =C2=A0If it doesn't work we can tr= y > something else. Ok. >> There is currently a test subdirectory in the repository. Can't you >> put tests there? > > Well, I'm no expert, but as I understand it, the existence of > the tests subdirectory is controversial, it's not much used or > maintained, and it's not distributed as part of Emacs. It has not been used much but it is our goal to add tests to Emacs. (However it looks like it will not be distributed by prebuilt Emacs. Which I personally think is unfortunate.) > Besides, adding tests to the test subdirectory wouldn't have affected the= issues > that started this thread. =C2=A0The problem wasn't a bug in a built Emacs= . > The problem was that Emacs didn't build under Windows. =C2=A0I expect tha= t > future issues in this area will be similar. I see. I thought the built Emacs needed testing too.