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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `check' phase for the emacs build system
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:00:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zig18e6m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <289a8f59.AEQAIm1BHOcAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABY2nWG@mailjet.com> (Arun Isaac's message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:08:56 +0530")

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

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-31 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-28 14:38 `check' phase for the emacs build system Arun Isaac
2017-03-31 19:00 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2017-04-02 16:50   ` Arun Isaac

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