From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11422 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2002 03:22:32 -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 11414 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2002 03:22:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dair.pair.com) (209.68.1.49) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2002 03:22:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 69687 invoked by uid 20157); 8 Oct 2002 03:22:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 2002 03:22:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 01:16:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson X-X-Sender: hp@dair.pair.com To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org cc: Nathanael Nerode Subject: Re: Testsuite reorganization, documentation, cleanup? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00450.txt.bz2 On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Mike Stump wrote: > I think I'd rather leave the old tests where they are. Sometimes > people compare them from old releases to new releases, and having name > stability is sometimes useful. Id rather someone work on a document > that describes the `right' way to name testcases going forward, and for > people to follow that, unless they have specific reasons not to. FWIW, I agree, strongly. I don't want a test-suite flag-day. I think the cure would be worse than any perceived disease. > If someone really wanted to reorganize really poorly done things, like > the p990912.c type testcases, or stuff in directories called misc, I > would not object. Yup, yup. brgds, H-P