Re: Remove references to test-output-distance.ly. (issue 549780044 by address@hidden)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/29/20, 3:39 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Han-Wen Nienhuys" 
<lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> 
wrote:

    On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:33 PM <address@hidden> wrote:
    >
    > > Remove references to test-output-distance.ly.
    > >
    > > It was removed in commit 8a74a0e ("Remove
    > > input/regression/test-output-distance.ly")
    >
    > I must have slept through that.  Had I been paying attention, I would
    > have pointed out what the documentation you propose to remove says:
    >
    >     This test changes each time it is run, and serves to verify that the
    > regression tests have, in fact, run.
    >
    > test-output-distance was removed on the grounds that the self-test
    > serves the same purpose, but I don't see how it does.
    >
    
    Could you elaborate? What failure scenario are you worried about?

As a novice in running the test suite, before test-output-distance was part of 
the test suite, we could run tests and get no output.  So we thought that 
everything was OK, but it wasn't.  Since adding test-output-distance, we always 
get the result of at least one regression test failure.

I thought it was a good addition.

Thanks,

Carl