Re: Gnus automatic builds

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:50:27 +0200 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote: 

DE> Please note that there's one little annoyance: You will get a single
DE> mail for all failed builds, meaning for every Emacs version. That means
DE> if you "really" break something, you'll get 5 mails. There's no way in
DE> buildbot to send just one mail which contains all the information.

I can live with that.

DE> OK, I chose lisp/tests.

DE> The buildbot will not run the NNTP test on new commits. I think the main
DE> part of this test is actually not the nntp testing, but more that it is
DE> an integration test which will fire up various parts of Gnus, so that
DE> broken require's etc. will hopefully pop up during startup.

That's great, thank you!

>> Could this work if we symlink registry.el and gnus-registry.el into the
>> tests directory?  Git supports symlinks and it would be a neat hack.

DE> I think this is a bit confusing, since the tests comprise only a small
DE> part of those files. But I have no strong opinion on this.

I meant if you chose to put "tests" at the top level, sorry.  The way
you have it now is great.

Ted