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[bug #62478] add more documentation of test suite usage
From: |
G. Branden Robinson |
Subject: |
[bug #62478] add more documentation of test suite usage |
Date: |
Sun, 22 May 2022 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT) |
Update of bug #62478 (project groff):
Status: Need Info => Fixed
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
Planned Release: None => 1.23.0
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Follow-up Comment #7:
Hi Dave,
[comment #6 comment #6:]
> [comment #5 comment #5:]
> > It's common--though not as common as it should be--for software
> > projects to be distributed with an integrated test suite. In
> > my opinion this is pretty elementary knowledge in software
> > engineering. It's beyond the scope of this document to spin
> > people up on such fundamentals; if they lack this background,
> > they either shouldn't be building groff from source code or
> > should be prepared to do some learning from additional sources.
>
> All good points.
>
> > What would you suggest?
>
> In light of the foregoing, I don't think anything additional needs to be
done to address this. It was mostly an off-the-cuff reaction to the "I have
asserted many times in discussions with you" line in comment #2, which made me
wonder if maybe this needed to be communicated somewhere.
I'm further revising the "INSTALL.*" files in the root of the source tree, but
given your reply I'll go ahead and re-close this now as before.
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