From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: `check' phase for the emacs build system Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:00:01 +0300 Message-ID: <87zig18e6m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <289a8f59.AEQAIm1BHOcAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABY2nWG@mailjet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cu1mJ-0006Mh-3H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:00:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cu1mG-0001Qw-2h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:00:07 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x241.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::241]:35403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cu1mF-0001Po-RF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:00:03 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-x241.google.com with SMTP id v2so8099752lfi.2 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:00:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <289a8f59.AEQAIm1BHOcAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABY2nWG@mailjet.com> (Arun Isaac's message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:08:56 +0530") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Arun Isaac (2017-03-28 20:08 +0530) wrote: > Many emacs packages have tests in something like > "packagename-tests.el". How many? My impression is that only few of them have. Anyway... > Would it be a good idea to add a `check' phase > to the emacs build system that looks for these test files, and attempts > to run tests? ... I would say: go for it if you think it's worth. However, I think we'll have a lot of problems trying to run such tests. -- Alex