On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: > On 2003-07-07(Mon) 23:03:24 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because > > R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can > > R> be sorted out, once and for all. > > > > One way to address the "once for all" part would be to write a > > test case. > > Does this mean that things are more likely to be corrected if test cases > are added?
Yes, of course. Without minimal tests which exercize the necessary operations, the libtool maintainer is forced to assume that his changes are correct, or needs to test with a large variety of existing packages in order to ensure that the updates are correct prior to commit. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
