Re: testing framework and package.el

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > Why does it matter very much where they are located?
>
> Because it affects how likely they are to be run with older versions
> in my experience.  If they're in the source tree, it doesn't happen
> (ie, people only run the tests that come with the particular version
> of the source tree).  Backward compatibility is lost because they
> diverge, and then nobody wants to expend a lot of effort making them
> backward compatible when nobody will run them with old versions
> anyway.

Wouldn't it be better than to setup the tests so that it is easy to
run them with old versions of Emacs - regardless of where the tests
are located?

And of course run it with old versions of Emacs to assure that this is
not broken. (Some tests might be, but the test structure should not be
broken.)