Re: org-html link building diff

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.


We had that discussion here aleady, and the result is: we have no test
framework to work with.

Better just do it ;)


  Sebastian