Re: testing Gnus and Emacs/XEmacs compatibility

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
> On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:11:19 +0100 David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> wrote: 
>
> DE> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> 
> DE> Yes, post-receive hook is easiest, but the buildbot can also poll.
>>>> 
>>>> If you want to set it up to e-mail me and Lars, that would be great.  We
>>>> can send to gnus.commits later I guess, but I want to try it out.
>>> 
>>> Sounds good.  It would be really nice to get a report on build failures
>>> on XEmacs and older Emacs versions automatically.
>
> DE> There's now a buildbot running for Gnus:
>
> DE> http://www.randomsample.de/gnus-buildbot
>
> DE> There are no mail notifications yet, since I first want to make sure it
> DE> works.
>
> DE> Now, time to write some tests. :-)
>
> Damn it, I am 90% done with mine :) 

It was a quiet sunday, and starting with the CEDET buildbot it was
pretty straightforward. :-)

We can also migrate it to gnus.org, if you want to have it all in one
place, but I also don't have a problem with hosting it.

> Can we call yours official and be done?  Maybe we can put the tests
> inside the Gnus repo, too?

Yes to both. The tests should definitely be in the Gnus repo, preferably
started with a makefile rule. I guess excluding them from the Emacs sync
shouldn't be a problem?

> I think with ERT we can do pretty well.

The important thing is that the tests must be batch-mode compatible with
a proper exit code. Otherwise it gets complicated... I haven't actually
looked into ERT much, but since it has made its way into Emacs proper,
it should be usable. :-)

-David