On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:46:26PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > The format of the test in tta/perl/t/*.t is going to change, replacing > Perl tree structure with a textual representation of the tree, which > should contain the same information. The corresponding commit will be a > big commit, and we cannot really know if there is gonna be some errors > in the new trees as nobody will check that the old and new representation > match for all the tests, but everything I had a look at looked good.
It appears to have reduced disk use significantly, which is great. I checked the extracted size of Texinfo 7.2 compared with a tar ball built from git master: $ du -d 0 texinfo-7.2 121M texinfo-7.2 $ du -d 0 texinfo-7.2dev 100M texinfo-7.2dev The test suite also runs faster than in 7.2. Under texinfo-7.2/tp: $ time make check ... real 2m43.721s user 2m34.547s sys 0m10.782s Under texinfo-7.2dev/tta: $ time make check ... real 1m29.282s user 1m20.576s sys 0m9.922s (Of course, there have been other changes since the release which could also have made a difference.)
