Hallo Ralf, On 22 Aug 2010, at 17:29, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 06:46:55AM CEST: >> On 22 Aug 2010, at 11:23, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> However, I continue to strongly dislike the old testsuite, and would >> much prefer to migrate it's tests into Autotest. > > Oh. I was going to propose a patch series to convert the old testsuite > to use the parallel-tests driver. Despite the new one having grown > nicely, there are still several issues only found with the old one > (and some tests in the new one that probably need more work). > > Oh well. I think I'll still propose the patch series, since it > shouldn't make a future migration any worse. I don't intend to work > on the migration myself; I prefer spending my time on other things.
Sure, a step forward is a step forward. And besides I might not find the time to work on migrating the old tests for a long while, and have a less annoying old testsuite is definitely a good thing in my book :) >> I understand the >> argument that our kludgy old tests are good for coverage of libtool >> with the bootstrapped autotools... but, honestly, I'd rather find >> out that the libtool I'm planning to install is going to fail with >> *my* autotools, than I would be told that the old testsuite still >> passes with whatever versions it happened to be bootstrapped with! > > Sure. > >> Getting rid of the old testsuite was actually my motivation for >> starting an Autotest based testsuite in the first place; and because >> bootstrap and reconf issues with the old testsuite have always been >> (and continue to be) a real pain. > > And look what the new testsuite gained us: much better test coverage! Yes indeed! > In that way I think it's a huge success even if it hasn't (yet) achieved > the goal you intended it for. :-) That's great. I could have sworn that we discussed this and reached a consensus that the old tests should stay... but a quick search through the archives didn't turn up the conversation I thought I'd remembered. I would have done the work to migrate long ago if my memory hadn't been implanted by aliens (8> I've added it to my TODO, so it should arrive here at some point in the not too distant future. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org)
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