Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility

2013-02-04 Thread Luke Mewburn
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:31:43PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: | On 02/04/2013 01:16 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote: | > We use autotest extensively, and our test scenario is rather complex | > and relies upon the existing serial behaviour; | > | I don't follow; if you use autotest, why you a

Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility

2013-02-04 Thread Peter Johansson
On 02/04/2013 11:31 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 02/04/2013 01:16 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote: [CUT] Especially when the time between previous major releases was 2.5 years. Examining the Changelog and release dates: 2009-12-08 Release automake 1.11.1 2012-02-21 Add "serial-tests" support

Re: serial-tests option and backwards compatibility

2013-02-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/04/2013 01:16 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:12:13PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > | On 01/15/2013 07:32 PM, Brandon Black wrote: > | > So my conundrum is this: in automake-1.13, the default switched from > serial > | > testing to parallel testing. The only w