From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24539 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2001 19:40:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24518 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 19:40:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO taltos.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 19:40:10 -0000 Received: from zack by taltos.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16C4NM-0002rp-00; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:40:08 -0800 Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:48:00 -0000 To: Geert Bosch Cc: guerby@acm.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: ACATS legal status cleared by FSF Message-ID: <20011206194008.GE8267@codesourcery.com> References: <200112052305.fB5N5D700531@ulmo.localdomain> <9F39173C-EA6D-11D5-8627-00039344BF4A@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9F39173C-EA6D-11D5-8627-00039344BF4A@gnat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i From: Zack Weinberg X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote: [...] Most of these plans seem fine by me except... > >The B tests require a lot of maintainance (hundreds of pages of > >changes each time you improve a message, split of files with too many > >errors, etc...), and have no value for the backend, may be someone > >will volunteer the packaging, but not me. I assume ACT dedicates > >someone to this task anyway :). > Yes, agreed. These tests just represent a lot of maintenance work for > very little benefit, since these are only tests of programs with errors > and indeed ACT already does this work. I disagree in the strongest possible terms. Put the B tests in the public repository. If you don't, you only make life harder for people outside of ACT who wish to work on the Ada front end. The maintenance work has to be done anyway, and ought to be the responsibility of the person who makes the change that causes the tests to regress. If the B tests are run as part of "make check" in the FSF tree, this will be enforced automatically. zw