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Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
Re: [RCF] parallel-tests: removing the "check-html" target and the .log -> .html conversion? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:08:30 +0100 |
On 01/08/2012 07:27 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Reference:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-01/msg00005.html>
>
> On 01/05/2012 11:14 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>>
>>> So, in conclusion, here is my simple proposal:
>>>
>>> 1. We deprecate the support for HTML testsuite output in the documentation
>>> of
>>> the 1.11.3 release.
>>>
>>> 2. In the 1.12 release, we remove it from the automake core, providing
>>> instead
>>> (in the automake tarball) an "extra" `.am' fragment that can offer a
>>> similar
>>> (and hopefully completely equivalent) functionality.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> I am a fan of reStructuredText and rst2html but definitely agree that this
>> functionality does not need to be in the core of Automake and that there only
>> needs to be sufficient provision to hook in some formatting tool to produce
>> alternate output formats.
>>
> Thanks for the feedback. Let's start deprecating the feature in the
> documentation then. I'll push the attached patch by tomorrow evening
> if there is no objection.
>
I've now pushed the patch to the new *rewindable* branch:
experimental/check-html-deprecate
to be eventually merged into maint. Further patches should follow shortly.
I will post them (together with this a copy of the already-posted patch, for
completeness) in a new thread on the automake-patches list.
Regards,
Stefano