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[bug#45948] [PATCH 0/5] Improvements to the Automake SRFI 64 test driver


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: [bug#45948] [PATCH 0/5] Improvements to the Automake SRFI 64 test driver.
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:39:17 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> The Automake parallel test harness does its own smart detection of the
> terminal color capability and always provides the --color-tests argument to
> the driver.  This change defaults the --color-tests argument to true when the
> test driver is run on its own (not via Automake).
>
> * build-aux/test-driver.scm (main): Set the default value of the --color-tests
> argument to true when it's not explicitly provided.

It’s a small change to why not, but…

… the test driver is not meant to be used on its own though, it’s really
a test driver for Automake.

Plus, in most projects, part of the test environment is defined in
‘Makefile.am’; I wouldn’t want to process bug reports because people
thought they could try and run tests without “make check”.

Thoughts?

As a side note, this test driver is bundled in quite a few Guile
packages.  Longer-term, it would be nice to consider maintaining it as
part of Automake.  Now is maybe a good time since there’s on-going
maintenance work happening in Autoconf (and soon Automake and Libtool)
after a long hiatus.

Ludo’.





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