Re: automake test driver for Guile scheme patch review

[Timothy Sample]

Hi,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Op 19-11-2023 om 18:17 schreef Karl Berry:
>
>> Hello Guile folk - back in May 2016, Mathieu Lirzin submitted a patch
>> to add a test driver for Guile Scheme to Automake.
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2016-05/msg00000.html
>>
>> It was never committed. It's been seven+ years, so before doing so, I
>> wanted to check if it was still useful, and valid.
>
> Useful, but I don't think it should be in Automake, because then the
> test driver is harder to update and it would add yet another source of
> bundling.

Well, it’s already a part of Automake as ‘contrib/test-driver.scm’:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/contrib/test-driver.scm

> Also, the test driver has been updated since then.

That’s true.  Maxim Cournoyer added some useful features in 2021.
However, these features do not affect Automake.  They only make the
script more useful when running outside of Automake.  It would be nice
to have them in the Automake version, but I guess Maxim would have to
sign a copyright assignment for that.  (I’m not sure of Automake’s
policy there, so correct me if I’m wrong.)

I think that doing nothing other than closing that patch would be a
reasonable course of action.  :)


-- Tim