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Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)
- From: prj at po dot cwru dot edu (Paul Jarc)
- To: Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot org>
- Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:26:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)
- Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
- References: <20030328232500.GA1176@doctormoo><1048927301.10770.182.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Laurent Guerby <guerby at acm dot 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