Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[phillip . lord]

On 2020-08-22 11:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:21:27 +0100
> > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > > The correct answers can be found by comparing against
> > > system-configuration-features, I think.
> > >
> > > And you have the same problem with your ERT-based approach, no?
> >
> >
> > No, because the correct answers are hardcoded into the file.
>
> I'm confused: how can you know the correct answers in advance in one
> case, but not in the other?

I think we are talking cross purposes. I do not want to display all the 
output, I want to know what it should be. And I don't care about the 
output from things that work as expected only things that do not. All of 
this is what ert is designed for. I might like to tweak the output a 
little, but as ert doesn't have a pluggable interface, that's harder.

Of course, I could write this functionality again. But it looks like a 
test to me. Why not use ert?

Phil