Re: [PATCH 01/10] tests: migrate legacy tests/cdemo tests to Autotest.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Chuck,

On 26 Nov 2011, at 11:39, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/25/2011 4:10 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> As usual, subject to feedback, I'll push this whole series in
>> 72 hours or so.  Make distcheck passes for me on my Mac 10.7 and
>> my Arch Linux x86_64 machines, but it would be great if folks with
> 
> a) This is a big holiday weekend in the US, so...a bit more than 72 hours is 
> indicated.  Most of us will still be catching up on post-holiday $realjob 
> stuff by the time 72 hours expires.

Ah, didn't think of that.  Sure, I will be busy myself for a week or two, so I 
won't push for at least a week, probably more.

> b) cygwin? mingw? msvc? All of the "old tests" have seen a LARGE number of 
> tweaks to ensure their proper operation on the various w32 platforms. Have 
> you done ANY testing there, at all, or are you relying on the rest of us to 
> do that work for you?

I'm afraid I don't have (or want) access to any Windows machines, so I'm afraid 
that I am relying on you guys to tell me if I screwed up.  Of course I'm not 
expecting you to debug or fix my mistakes for me, and I'm not anticipating any 
new problems, since everything is merely migrated from legacy testsuite to 
Autotest testsuite, with minimal changes required to keep everything working on 
my main machines.

Although I do normally have access to more machines, the flooding in Bangkok 
has made any use of my Internet connection other than email intolerably slow... 
hence the recent flurry of work on libtool (which I can do offline, queueing 
emails for when my connection is next up) to fill my time while I wait for 
things to get back to normal.  The reason I'll be too busy to do much more of 
that over the next week or two, is that last night I actually had a full-speed 
connection to the US again, so I'm anticipating playing catchup at $realjob 
myself.

> Sorry if I seem a bit short, but I'm rather annoyed to see my queue get 
> filled with hours upon hours of work in the middle of a holiday.

Please don't feel that it's your responsibility to painstakingly pick through 
every patch I post... I'd be more than happy just to get the test logs from 
anything I put on alpha.gnu.org for the architectures I don't use to help me 
restabilize the code closer to a release.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday, and sorry for working so much on libtool 
recently: although my objective with the recent modernisations has been to try 
to decruft libtool a little, and to make the barrier to contribution much lower 
than it is currently if at all possible.  I rarely have the chance to put a lot 
of time into libtool, and things will slow down considerably again now if my 
Internet connection really is back to (something like) normal again.  I have 
another 20 or so patches left incubating in my unpublished queue, and I will be 
done for now after those are polished and pushed over the next month or two.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)