Hi and thanks a lot for your reply :) Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes:
> :test-global-result: - This one is documented in the info manual. > :global-test-result: - Grepping suggests this one is actually used. > > Would anyone be able to clarify which variable is the correct one for > drivers to produce? > > I know no background on this, but I certainly see the same thing you do: > global-test-result is the one that's actually in the Automake .trs > files, so I think that's the one you should use. Thanks for confirming and will do. > In the ChangeLogs, I only see one entry from 2011, in > old/ChangeLog.11, which talks about global-test-result. > > Also, I guess I should change the documentation to talk about > global-test-result, and eradicate test-global-result. > > Confusingly, t/test-metadata-results.sh has comment: > > # Basic checks. Also that that ':global-test-result:' fields and > # "old-style" directives with format "RESULT: test-name" are now ignored. > > but then actually does its tests with test-global-result. So I think > that comment should also be changed. Maybe test-global-result was a name > during development or something. Interesting, you are right that this sounds like the name was changed during the development and few places were forgotten. Thanks once more and have a nice day, Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
