Re: Moving internal functions in testfun/ directory to test/ directory

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/04/2013 03:16 PM, Rik wrote:
> 8/4/13
>
> All,
>
> Is there any objection to moving the following internal functions from the
> scripts/testfun directory to test/private?
>
> __run_test_suite__.m
> __printf_assert__.m
> __prog_output_assert__.m
>
> These functions are only used when running the 'make check' test suite and
> don't really need to be installed and visible to every installation.
>
> Only downside is that if you want to run one of the test in the test/
> directory you will need to execute "addpath ($srcdir/private)" first.  We
> could also modify run-octave.in to automatically include this.

We also install the tests now so it is possible to use the 
__run_test_suite__ function with an installed copy of Octave when the 
source files are not available.

jwe