On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Philip Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> At Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:36:52 -0500,
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Dave Abrahams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm just
>> > trying to get it installed and am already confused.  It's hosted in
>> > Git but it tries to install itself into an active bzr repo?  Even
>> > after I hack up the install.sh to avoid bzr, the thing doesn't work.
>>
>> I'm guessing install.sh is actually aimed at adding ert to a bzr clone
>> of emacs itself.
>>
>> So, if I were to create ert tests for Magit, would I just add the
>> contents of https://github.com/ohler/ert/tree/master/lisp/emacs-lisp
>> to magit's sources, or...?
>
> No, I wouldn't have thought so. If people want to run the tests then
> they should install ert

Okay, I suppose I'd put magit's tests in a test/ subdirectory.

The question still remains: how to install ERT properly?

> (which will be bundled with emacs soon),

Really?  I could find no sign of it in the latest emacs repo.

> there should be no runtime requirement on ert.

'Course not.  Even if we were bundling it with magit I wouldn't dream
of creating a runtime requirement.

Thanks for the feedback so far,


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Dave Abrahams
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