Re: Tidy and fix clean and distclean rules for old testsuite.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 22 Aug 2010, at 17:29, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 06:46:55AM CEST:
>> On 22 Aug 2010, at 11:23, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> However, I continue to strongly dislike the old testsuite, and would
>> much prefer to migrate it's tests into Autotest.
> 
> Oh.  I was going to propose a patch series to convert the old testsuite
> to use the parallel-tests driver.  Despite the new one having grown
> nicely, there are still several issues only found with the old one
> (and some tests in the new one that probably need more work).
> 
> Oh well.  I think I'll still propose the patch series, since it
> shouldn't make a future migration any worse.  I don't intend to work
> on the migration myself; I prefer spending my time on other things.

Sure, a step forward is a step forward.  And besides I might not find
the time to work on migrating the old tests for a long while, and
have a less annoying old testsuite is definitely a good thing in my
book :)

>> I understand the
>> argument that our kludgy old tests are good for coverage of libtool
>> with the bootstrapped autotools... but, honestly, I'd rather find
>> out that the libtool I'm planning to install is going to fail with
>> *my* autotools, than I would be told that the old testsuite still
>> passes with whatever versions it happened to be bootstrapped with!
> 
> Sure.
> 
>> Getting rid of the old testsuite was actually my motivation for
>> starting an Autotest based testsuite in the first place; and because
>> bootstrap and reconf issues with the old testsuite have always been
>> (and continue to be) a real pain.
> 
> And look what the new testsuite gained us: much better test coverage!

Yes indeed!

> In that way I think it's a huge success even if it hasn't (yet) achieved
> the goal you intended it for.  :-)

That's great.  I could have sworn that we discussed this and reached
a consensus that the old tests should stay... but a quick search through
the archives didn't turn up the conversation I thought I'd remembered.
I would have done the work to migrate long ago if my memory hadn't been
implanted by aliens (8>

I've added it to my TODO, so it should arrive here at some point in
the not too distant future.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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