Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Fix test for GNU patch version

[Jean Delvare]

On Thursday 24 March 2011 09:27:23 pm Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:09:22 pm Jean Delvare wrote:
> > If the readability of the test cases worries you to this degree, I
> >  guess it would be possible to have the test runner ignore all
> > quotes in reply to commands? Either unconditionally, or after
> > testing for the presence of an old version of GNU patch not
> > honoring
> >  QUOTING_STYLE?
> 
> Something like this?
> 
> From: Jean Delvare <address@hidden>
> Subject: Improve test suite readability
> 
> The different quoting style of old versions of GNU patch forces us
> to use regexp matching in various places in the test suite. Simply
> stripping the quotes in question would let us make the test suite
> more readable.
> (...)

Andreas, any comment on this? Do you like this proposed change, or not?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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