From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Freja Nordsiek Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:05:05 +0000 Message-ID: <5b850e7f-b8fa-4e45-b07b-92ca4839ae1a@posteo.net> References: <202311212145.3ALLjtWU009792@freefriends.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31806"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Berry , maximedevos@telenet.be Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 21:05:48 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r5tTo-00080G-6V for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:05:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5tTT-00087r-50; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:05:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5tTQ-00085Q-91 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:05:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5tTL-0006Mf-Pn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97E9A240101 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:05:13 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1700683513; bh=X6ezheGqYoK41Xx0fdQWq9dKdjgRdz0VF5EvAiVaxMM=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:From: Content-Transfer-Encoding:From; b=q3E+ZP8CFinzThHVK4kDsPpIlX2Ym51UO4NWuYTm8K9BbbIhnZnQDOYIbTcm0fSYH F8KqdQgO9o9DZmXutfUbrKMxNvyRqi7nZR5jTqCxWxbSctdHolpNQhHm85cDyvJCoQ 4PVU9BqmpnLgPeyCeJoVS6trGsNxsjk01JQe5+tQt5JOvQ94YtfdwOwf/p7/V+3pWz WuPLFseri071BE8JIqTuU0QywcoWmqxV6uMMVuYWWoRfCYBVDM2Bu3UN4hDrr1oqO0 TbARqeDzWe/wo2CU1PEO01FRcVe1Zi13NWyb51VqVaosKpLkdfrXj9NWW1UVaJnGSG +lQsDReM1nASQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4SbC086bVHz6txn; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:05:12 +0100 (CET) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <202311212145.3ALLjtWU009792@freefriends.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=fnordsie@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:22105 Archived-At: I will check out the actively-maintained one from Guix, and likely use it. Almost certainly better than the mess I wrote. Best regards, Freja On 21/11/2023 22:45, Karl Berry wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > > MD> but I don't think it should be in Automake, because then the test > driver is harder to update > > Fine by me :). > > MD> I don't have any advise on how to get the automake maintainers > > Sorry, I should have made it clear that I am, effectively, the automake > maintainer nowadays. Technically just a contributor, but no one else is > applying patches. (Jim Meyering is still making the releases, hopefully > with another one out before the end of the year.) > > TS> Well, it's already a part of Automake as > contrib/test-driver.scm: > > Sounds like I should remove it from there, since that version is stale, > as you both noted. It doesn't make sense to me to have a copy of a file > that is updated elsewhere. Better for it to be part of wherever it is > actually useful instead of putting me and laggard automake development > in the middle. Since it's been years since the initial patch+idea, and > no one has ever written about it, evidently the goal has been reached > outside of Automake. > > TS> I think that doing nothing other than closing that patch would be a > reasonable course of action. :) > > It's nice to hear the same proposal twice :). Thus it shall be. > > Freja, if you go forward with your project, evidently the conclusion is > that it's better to use the actively-maintained version in Guix. > > --happy hacking, karl. >