Re: testing framework and package.el

[Christian Ohler]

 On 5/10/10 2:18, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Christian Ohler<address@hidden>  writes:
> > Is there a deep reason
> > why Emacs currently has test/ as a separate top-level directory?
> Because the test files are not to be distributed with the tarball.
Why not?  Isn't it true that whenever someone builds Emacs from source, 
it's possible that they are using a configuration (GCC version, 
configure flags, etc.) that hasn't been tested extensively, and it would 
make sense for them to run Emacs' self-tests before they waste their 
time installing an unstable Emacs?  This seems to apply especially to 
the pretest tarballs, but also to the regular distribution to some extent.

Christian.