Re: ChangeLog encoding; testsuite file/s

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Adam,

Adam Tuja wrote:
> Hello, In latest lzlib Changlelog there is a name encoded in ISO (iso-8859-15 in
> this case). If there will be some other name, form other part of the world then
> it will be encoded differently, therefore displayed differently. You may want to
> use UTF-8 in this case to unify it (diff attached).

Thank you, but I very much prefer the ISO-8859 encoding.


> The is a testsuite in every package which, in my opinion is unnecessarily so
> big. I refer here to `test*(.lz)' files. They don't have to be this big to show
> and test features they represent.

Yes, they have to be that big, or even bigger. In lziprecover 1.16 a bug in 
--split was not detected by 'make check' because the test file was too 
small. In general a file needs to be larger than the input buffer to test 
that there are no problems when reaching the end of the buffer.

Shipping large test files in a separate package won't work; nobody will 
download it to run the additional tests.

BTW, the development version of gzip generates and compresses a file of 4 
GiB of uncompressed size to test the new functionality of --list because it 
is the smallest file able to test it.


Best regards,
Antonio.