Re: package and testing rant (was Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal)

[Nic Ferrier]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> It is certainly the case that I most "test" my packages by using them.
> And I do not install my own packages through ELPA but live from their
> VC'd repository. So, there is a worry here. This is even true during my
> continuous integration tests (the dependencies are loaded from an ELPA
> repo, but nothing else).
>
> Having said that, I generally use an automatic tool to move from the
> source repository format to the package format; or, in the case of
> MELPA, someone else does it for me. Once this is set up, I am struggling
> to think of bugs that have come at package time.

I do this too.

Obvious things that break because of no package testing:

- autoloads missing (only really fixed by package-install-ing)
- expected depend missing (can be fixed by requiring the source in fresh
  emacs)



Nic