From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Re: Test framework needed Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:39:58 -0600 Message-ID: <87oc4sp9hx.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4D9329BC.6000106@gmail.com> <87r59og1pt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <4D93369C.7010608@gmail.com> <87vcz03d4p.fsf@sbs.ch> <4D933E9E.7030907@gmail.com> <87r59o8wum.fsf@univ-nantes.fr> <AANLkTimFfN7KSvp+8cZ_n=co9x3LE67SBCOJnGjQ1eEG@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: <emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51537 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q548a-00063m-1s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <schulte.eric@gmail.com>) id 1Q548Y-0005tO-9E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:15 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:35895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <schulte.eric@gmail.com>) id 1Q548Y-0005tC-45 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:14 -0400 Received: by iwg8 with SMTP id 8so2287933iwg.0 for <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:45:13 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode>, <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode>, <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Manuel Giraud <manuel.giraud@univ-nantes.fr>, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> Aankhen <aankhen@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 20:43, Manuel Giraud > <manuel.giraud@univ-nantes.fr> wrote: >> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes: >> [snip] >> >>> Please correct me if I am missing something. >>> >>> This suite should actually be updated with effectively each patch which >>> introduces new features and run after each patch. >> >> Which renders this framework far less automatic. I think that having a >> set of org files against which one could try any export and *see* that >> the results are almost correct would be enough. > I think an "automatic" solution would involve running a batch Emacs process which loads up Org-mode and then loads and runs the existing test suite. This would be both easily automatable and would allow testing of various versions of Emacs with relative ease. Best -- Eric