Re: Volunteers to implement test for stuff called at startup?

[John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>]

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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> So with this in mind, one idea that could help us detect similar situations
> in the future would be to have a test in the test suite that would record
> every primitive called during startup, compare it against some expected
> list, and flag any changes (at least additions, not sure about deletions).
> Then both people who run the test suite regularly and bots like Hydra could
> flag any changes and let us handle these potential problems when they are
> young.

> Does that make sense? If so, would someone like to volunteer for the job?

I like this idea. The approach of gathering a "primitives" list, and comparing
it after each test run, doesn't require as much legwork as Richard's
suggestion -- where we'd need to know ahead of time every such flag of
interest.

I'll second the call: any volunteers?

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