Re: testing framework and package.el

[Christian Ohler]

 On 5/10/10 11:20, Sebastian Rose wrote:
> Christian Ohler<address@hidden>  writes:
> >   On 5/10/10 2:18, Chong Yidong wrote:
> > > 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.
> Tests should be part of the repo, yes.
>
> But for tarballs?

What do you use the tarballs for?  For building Emacs from source.  
Thus, what I said above applies.

Christian.