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Re: havelib tests


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: havelib tests
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:57:10 +0200

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Now that gnulib has a way to store long-running and unportable tests, I would
> like to move the 'havelib' testsuite from a GNU gettext subdirectory
>   
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=tree;f=autoconf-lib-link/tests>
> to gnulib.
>
> This testsuite is essential when anyone modifies m4/lib-link.m4.
>
> The test would be declared as 'longrunning-test' and 'unportable-test', so 
> that
> normally only the output of "gnulib-tool --create-[mega]testdir" would contain
> it. It would remain a single subdirectory in gnulib, with a separate
> Makefile.am and 8 subdirectories.
>
> Any objections to that?

That sounds fine.
Go for it.

> In theory it would be possible to extract the history of this chunk of code
> from the GNU gettext git repository and merge (oops, rebase) it into the 
> gnulib
> repository. But these are quite complicated operations, and the testsuite has
> hardly changed in the last 7 years. Therefore the history is of small
> usefulness. I would like to take the simple route and simply add the files as
> "new files" in the gnulib repository.




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