Stefano Lattarini wrote: ... >> I've seen a few projects that require their automake-managed tests >> be run sequentially. I suspect that some maintainers will not be eager >> to adapt their tests to run in parallel solely to accommodate a newer >> version of automake. If you have only a dozen or so tests, whether they >> run in sequence or parallel doesn't make a big difference, but the work >> required to "upgrade" may be considerable. >> >> I urge you not to impose such a change. >> There are already too many projects that require some ancient >> version of automake. Let's not make it hard to upgrade. >> > OK, but there's a misunderstanding here. My proposal above was only about > the "new" and "old" implementations of the 'parallel-tests' suite (where > the "new" one uses the 'test-driver' auxiliary script); I wasn't proposing > to touch the old serial testsuite *at all*.
Good! Glad it was merely because I misread.
