Re: Request for policy: regression tests

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> "Greg J. Badros" wrote:
> > 
> > Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > (Taking bug-guile off the cc list)
> > >
> > > "Greg J. Badros" wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > > It'd be nice to do this inside the repository such that change logs from
> > > > guile-modules are preserved in their new place.
> > >
> > > Do you mean ChangeLog or version history? Previous protocol for merging
> > > directories has been to copy the ChangeLog under a new name.
> > 
> > That's not necessary here-- I envision:
> > 
> > guile-core/benchmarks
> > guile-core/test-suite
> > 
> > where those two directories are just the two directories of
> > guile-modules.  The dirs have ChangeLog files, but there is none in the
> > top-level directory of guile-modules.
> > 
> > > > Thoughts?  It'd be easy for me to move the guile-modules source into
> > > > guile-core, but not as satisfying as moving the ,v files around (but
> > > > that's exploiting unsupported CVS behaviour).
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that individual file revision history is that important
> > > for tests.
> > 
> > But I don't see why we should dump it unnecessarily, either.  There is
> > value in those individual ,v files and it's hardly any harder to keep
> > that value so we should.
> > 
> 
> How about copying the ,v files then, and cvs deleting the old ones.
> That should mostly DTRT. I don't think liking is necessary.

Yes.  If I suggested linking, it was by accident.  guile-modules should
just disappear shortly after its subdirectories are copied into
subdirs of guile-core.

Greg