[bug #62478] add more documentation of test suite usage

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #62478 (project groff):

                  Status:               Need Info => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.23.0                 

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Follow-up Comment #7:

Hi Dave,

[comment #6 comment #6:]
> [comment #5 comment #5:]
> > It's common--though not as common as it should be--for software
> > projects to be distributed with an integrated test suite.  In
> > my opinion this is pretty elementary knowledge in software
> > engineering.  It's beyond the scope of this document to spin
> > people up on such fundamentals; if they lack this background,
> > they either shouldn't be building groff from source code or
> > should be prepared to do some learning from additional sources.
> 
> All good points.
> 
> > What would you suggest?
> 
> In light of the foregoing, I don't think anything additional needs to be
done to address this.  It was mostly an off-the-cuff reaction to the "I have
asserted many times in discussions with you" line in comment #2, which made me
wonder if maybe this needed to be communicated somewhere.

I'm further revising the "INSTALL.*" files in the root of the source tree, but
given your reply I'll go ahead and re-close this  now as before.


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