Re: Guile test libraries, regression testing and `make check'

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: "Michael J. Barillier" <address@hidden>
   Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:26:53 -0600

   is there a suitable replacement so that a ``pragmatically efficient''
   (i.e. lazy) hacker can quickly and easily create a test suite for a
   Guile library that runs under automake's `check' target?

for example of this usage (congruent w/ automake methodology), see:

http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ps/
http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ps/dist/

specifically the files SETUP.in and Makefile.in in subdir `tests'.

for adding module (ice-9 testing-lib) to guile (other than 1.4.x),
perhaps you can obtain write privs and DTRT.  if the official guile
maintainers are unresponsive, you may wish to look at:

http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/guile-sdl/GUILE-FIXES

and improve upon that w/in the user community, instead.  as a last
resort, you can always bundle the module w/ each package that uses it.
that's a bit uncool, but necessity is a mother...

thi