Re: testing framework and package.el

[Christian Ohler]

 On 13/10/10 11:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > /usr/local/src/Emacsen -+- trunk    -+- etc
> >                          |            +- lisp
> >                          |            +- src
> >                          +- emacs-23 -+- etc
> >                          |            +- lisp
> >                          |            +- src
> >                          +- tests    -+- automated
> >                                       +- crashers
> >                                       +- ui
>
> That makes a lot of sense to me (except for the unacceptable use of
> a capital letter in a filename, which I assume you only put there as
> a form of provocation).
>
> We should indeed turn the current `test' subdirectory into a new
> Bzr branch.  If/when we need tests that are really
> implementation-specific we will see how to deal with them.

IIUC, this design requires developers who want to add features and write 
tests for them to check out two different bzr branches and submit two 
different patches.  Isn't that a rather high bar that will be 
inconvenient for developers and discourage them from writing tests?  
Earlier in this thread, you said:

> I think that given the current situation, tests written in LOLCODE or
> Agda are better than no tests at all,

This sounded to me like you would like the bar for contributing tests to 
be low.


As an alternative that avoids this problem, we could maintain the tests 
in Emacs trunk, but our makefiles could have a test_src variable that 
defaults to tests, and that we can set to ../trunk/tests when running 
tests in the emacs-23 directory in Stephen's layout.

Christian.