Re: org-html link building diff

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 18, 2010, at 2:59 AM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:

>
> Hi, Carsten.  The new changes are pushed as
> tehom-html-export-refactor-build-link
>
> I couldn't undo the basing onto tehom-master, try though I might.
> Something to do with intermediate changes that I couldn't fast-forward
> and that I probably edited wrong.  So I made a separate branch,
> tehom-html-export-refactor-build-link, which is now pushed to the
> repo.  So tehom-master and html-export-refactor-build-link are already
> obsolete.
>
> I moved the tests into top-level directory testing, as you asked.  I'm
> going to write a separate post describing the test conventions I use.
>
> Now a question: IIUC you want a branch that has no tests, that
> "contains only the changes that would go into org".  Since I develop
> tests and code at about the same time (tests slightly before code),
> I'm not sure how to arrange the branching in a maintainable way.

Hi Tom,

If we decide to use your emtests framework for Org on a brader basis,  
then there would be no reason to have a branch free of tests.  This is  
only necessary because I am supposed to apply your patches, but  
without the testing framework at the moment.

Maybe we should just go ahead and start using emtest for Org-mode.   
Why don't you go ahead and propose this in a mail to emacs-orgmode.   
Lets see if there is any resistance by people who understand more  
about testing than I do.  If not, we go ahead and do it.

I would still prefer to have the tests in a separate directory if your  
package allows to do so.  Hope that this is no problem?

I guess all the emtest code itself would then have to go into the org- 
mode git repo as well, so that we can use it?

And we should develop a make target that will run all tests.

- Carsten


>
> I could of course make a one-time branch that just removes the testing
> directory.  But then what happens for any future fixes?  Seems like
> each time I'd have to rebase that branch and pick thru changes and
> make it discard each change that deals with testing/.  It seems hard
> to maintain.
>
> Tom Breton (Tehom)
>
>

- Carsten