From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 01:58:57 +0100 Message-ID: <201102010159.02694.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <7vzkqh8vqw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alex Budovski , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 01 01:59:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pk4ag-0000yH-Vi for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:59:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756527Ab1BAA70 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:59:26 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:59402 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754272Ab1BAA7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:59:25 -0500 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so6485434wwa.1 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:59:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=phF4hgmuFQIw9xi9MZxspLU6IACcCXPGFk2HyP2dF2k=; b=KM/f+KembdQuMvjr95dD29eTHHQ/YVVbyip8tWLab8If8OL9KQEkwgu8eBowuc1jMC RWXPjKDKpfCqctIaA0/93M0eEZm6F20QgUclbjkIF3wkje6yQUqvpfUHbC+Iysq8RFdu d4VxflOXQQhOEhrbVzP3u4ZNYDA5rj/vn4zcQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=vMrPovTfJy+AmTRiGOVpuxlXFeDLXUIBWhApQnqPR2GkwA7MopH6UZK9a394SvcMIb BXeBafpR0jFUkY7L02f/HzF0g7hWwI24/ncvOBe0UKlE1XzNIsfJhW6O1+qLkb08oTBt oVrlIAQwKmWSEb9mU8cLiHrL/tDX2oWnprCYo= Received: by 10.216.166.68 with SMTP id f46mr27280wel.26.1296521964293; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (abvg238.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.204.238]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h39sm7113278wes.29.2011.01.31.16.59.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:59:23 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Alex Budovski wrote: >=20 > > >> Nope. =A0't/' is the standard name for directory with "normal" t= ests, at > > >> least in Perl / CPAN land, where TAP comes from ('xt/' is for ex= tra > > >> tests) > > > > > > So what? =A0It is not because Perl has set this horrible preceden= t that we > > > have to perpetuate it. =A0I personally never saw t used as a dire= ctory > > > name for tests before Git, and I'm not that young anymore unfortu= nately. CPAN is around 21000 distributions and 88000 modules. Most of those us= e 't/' for tests (default CPAN client to download and install modules run= s those tests before installing module). > > The MySQL project (and its clones) also uses the t/ convention. >=20 > OK, that makes for another one. >=20 > Now what about those hundred counter-example projects _not_ using "t"= =20 > but something more descriptive? You mean those counter-example projects that use and include comprehens= ive tests, isn't it? Well, GCC uses 'testsuite/'. Mozilla uses 'testing/'. --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland