Re: [PATCH] {maint} tests: improve tests on "maintainer-clean" target

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:03:01PM CEST:
> On Thursday 31 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I haven't tested on MinGW recently, and haven't tested branch-1.11 in a
> > longer while.  The limit was 32K for argv plus environment IIRC.
> >
> But then we should be pretty safe on both maint and master:
>  $ (cd tests && echo *.test | wc -c)
>  11154 # maint
>  16089 # master

Hmm.  Might've been that the list was exported twice.  Or with
$(srcdir)/ prefix expanded.  I'd need to check.  I had about 2K
of environment when master failed for me last time.

> > > I have no big problems in applying
> > > this patch to master only, but I'd rather keep it in maint unless we are
> > > already dangerously near to the MinGW/MSYS upper limit.
> > 
> > Well, apply it based on maint,
> >
> The patch is already based on maint ... but then, should I apply it to
> maint, or merge it to master only?

Let's go for maint.

Thanks,
Ralf