Re: testsuite: fixed spurious failure in vala4.test (w.r.t. Solaris sh)

[Stefano Lattarini]

At Sunday 11 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:06:08PM CEST:
> > At Sunday 11 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > Note that while heirloom and Solaris sh are similar, they
> > > aren't identical, and I wouldn't want to invest work into
> > > fixing issues that are in the former only, since it's
> > > definitely not a normal development environment.
> >
> > You're right about this, but please consider that the heirloom sh
> > offers a simple way to get immediate feedback about portability
> > errors w.r.t. Solaris sh, even for those contributors which don't
> > have an access to a Solaris or OpenSolaris system.  Spurious
> > errors regarding only heirloom-sh can hamper this feedback.  So I
> > think it's better if we ensure that the test scripts can work
> > smootly with heirloom-sh too, and not just to reach an
> > only-therotically wider portability, but to provide practical
> > help to developers.
>
> Well, if you invest work in this, that is fine with me.  Also, if
> fixes are straight-forward and easily integrated.  What I'd like to
> avoid is issues that add burden to maintenance and ongoing
> development. As an extreme (and unrealistic) example, at this point
> I wouldn't want to try to support an ancient shell without shell
> functions any more, because that would cause extra work when
> writing new testsuite tests.
I agree with you.  But I think that, up to this moment, Heirloom sh 
and Solaris sh are similar enough, so that it's easy to support both 
of them if one is already supported.  Let's hope this won't change.

Regards,
    Stefano