On 01/17/2013 02:01 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 01/16/2013 10:03 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Since the parallel test harness is already present in Automake 1.11, and >>> it is in many many ways superior to the old serial driver, my suggestion >>> would be switch to in your package. But assuming you have good reasons >>> not to do so ... >> >> There are some cases where it's going to be quite difficult to ever run >> tests in parallel. >> > True. Jim Meyering also raised a point like yours when I had asked if we > could consider deprecating the serial harness; and that's why we didn't > go ahead with the deprecation, but instead "just" made the parallel harness > the preferred one (becoming the default, being touted as "the way to go > in the manual", etc). The idea is that the users should be encouraged to > use the parallel harness by default; if it turns out they have good reasons > to prefer the serial harness, they can still request it explicitly. > > The documentation in this area might probably be improved, though > Done: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00138.html>
Regards, Stefano
