Re: testing framework and package.el

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> You're right that changing the convention is not too hard for the
> framework, but getting tests to be backward compatible is going to be
> annoying if you don't plan for it from the beginning.  In practice it
> very likely won't happen, and that's unfortunate.

I don't understand. Is there any other way supporting backward
compatibility of the test than actually running them from time to time
in older versions? Why does it matter very much where they are
located?