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Re: improving testing scheme (was Re: ACATS and GCC testsuite)


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


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