Re: [FYI] {parallel-tests-maint} docs: parallel-tests is not experimental anymore

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Sunday 15 May 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:07:46PM CEST:
> > The parallel-tests driver has now been used quite extensively
> > by a fair number of real-world applications (e.g., GNU coreutils,
> > GNU libtool, GNU grep, and various packages using Gnulib), and
> > thus exposed to adequate on-field testing.  So there's no point
> > in declaring it experimental anymore (which would risk to make
> > potential users shy away from it).
> 
> Well, the point of declaring it experimental is being able to do at
> least slightly incompatible changes and mostly getting away with it.
>
> The changes might not just be needed for portability reasons in the
> *current* code, but also for newer features in changed code.  I'm
> willing to bet that your SoC project will turn up one or two such
> situations.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> > * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Do not
> > declare the parallel-tests driver as "experimental" anymore.
> 
Should I revert this patch then?  Or should we add a more
"watered-down" warning in place of the previous "scary" one?

Regards,
  Stefano