On Sunday 15 May 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:07:46PM CEST: > > The parallel-tests driver has now been used quite extensively > > by a fair number of real-world applications (e.g., GNU coreutils, > > GNU libtool, GNU grep, and various packages using Gnulib), and > > thus exposed to adequate on-field testing. So there's no point > > in declaring it experimental anymore (which would risk to make > > potential users shy away from it). > > Well, the point of declaring it experimental is being able to do at > least slightly incompatible changes and mostly getting away with it. > > The changes might not just be needed for portability reasons in the > *current* code, but also for newer features in changed code. I'm > willing to bet that your SoC project will turn up one or two such > situations. > > Cheers, > Ralf > > > * doc/automake.texi (Simple Tests using parallel-tests): Do not > > declare the parallel-tests driver as "experimental" anymore. > Should I revert this patch then? Or should we add a more "watered-down" warning in place of the previous "scary" one?
Regards, Stefano
