Re: cl-defstruct-based package.el, now with ert tests and no external tar!

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:25:06 -0400 Daniel Hackney <address@hidden> wrote: 

DH> One other change I made, which probably deserves some discussion, is
DH> that I created a folder "test/automated/data" which is intended to hold
DH> test-related data. I created a subfolder "package" (so it is
DH> "test/automated/data/package") which contains a test "archive-contents"
DH> file, as well as test elisp files. My hope is that such a directory
DH> could be useful for other tests which need example data.

DH> I also added a rule in the "Makefile.in" to skip byte-compilation of the
DH> files in "data".

Unit tests are very nice.  Maybe the GNU ELPA could also have a "sample"
area for testing packages (outside of the main packages) with a remote
URL, SSL certificates, signing, etc. to duplicate the real interaction
users will experience as much as possible.

Ted