Re: Attic cleanup

[Derek Robert Price]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>  
>
> > As long as the test -d was in place, I'd trust user's to run sanity.sh
> > on the appropriate filesystems as they found necessary.  Also, Paul,
> > if you'd like to send a patch with test cases testing various CVS
> > commands when the Attic is empty, I'd likely commit that.  Of course,
> > if the Attic went away when empty, I suppose only the test that it was
> > deleted would be necessary.  This would be less code in the test suite.
> >    
>
> I don't know about you, but I typically only run the tests in the
> default /tmp directory which is typically either a ufs (which is the
> filesystem type I normally use for the repository anyway) or a memory
> filesystem. I suppose we should encourage folks to run the tests in the
> filesystems they are going to use...
>  

True, I was thinking that potential users might think of that, but docs 
would likely be in order if we really wanted that...

...except that as soon as I manage to finish this Autotest conversion, 
testing will occur in the build tree, by default.  I forget how easy it 
is to move wihtout moving the build tree.

Does the Autotest rambling make me sound like a broken record yet?  :)

Derek

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