From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
To: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>,
"gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r88lwxp7.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048927301.10770.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Laurent Guerby's message of "29 Mar 2003 09:41:42 +0100")
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 00:25, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> A lot of people mentioned the justification "You want to test it before
>> you install it, don't you?".
>
> Well I'm probably stupid, but it makes no sense to me, what's magic
> about installing?
It often replaces the old, known-good version. But if you install to
a unique, initially-empty prefix, then it makes more sense to install
before testing.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-02 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-29 2:58 Nathanael Nerode
2003-03-29 12:25 ` Laurent Guerby
2003-04-02 7:49 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2003-03-29 15:11 Richard Kenner
2003-03-29 15:51 Robert Dewar
2003-03-29 16:43 Richard Kenner
2003-04-01 23:53 ` Paul Jarc
2003-04-02 0:08 Richard Kenner
2003-04-02 0:26 ` Paul Jarc
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