From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26960 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2003 00:26:56 -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 26945 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2003 00:26:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (129.22.114.26) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2003 00:26:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 26729 invoked by uid 500); 2 Apr 2003 00:27:17 -0000 To: Laurent Guerby Cc: Nathanael Nerode , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite) In-Reply-To: <1048927301.10770.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Laurent Guerby's message of "29 Mar 2003 09:41:42 +0100") References: <20030328232500.GA1176@doctormoo> <1048927301.10770.182.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Laurent Guerby , Nathanael Nerode , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 07:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 Laurent Guerby 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