Bruno Haible wrote: > Now that gnulib has a way to store long-running and unportable tests, I would > like to move the 'havelib' testsuite from a GNU gettext subdirectory > > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=tree;f=autoconf-lib-link/tests> > to gnulib. > > This testsuite is essential when anyone modifies m4/lib-link.m4. > > The test would be declared as 'longrunning-test' and 'unportable-test', so > that > normally only the output of "gnulib-tool --create-[mega]testdir" would contain > it. It would remain a single subdirectory in gnulib, with a separate > Makefile.am and 8 subdirectories. > > Any objections to that?
That sounds fine. Go for it. > In theory it would be possible to extract the history of this chunk of code > from the GNU gettext git repository and merge (oops, rebase) it into the > gnulib > repository. But these are quite complicated operations, and the testsuite has > hardly changed in the last 7 years. Therefore the history is of small > usefulness. I would like to take the simple route and simply add the files as > "new files" in the gnulib repository.
