On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 10:03, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 03:20, Hans-Peter Nilsson via Libstdc++ > <libstd...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > > > Also, how about shortening those test-suite file-paths? > > They're path sort-of overlong for any git (and ChangeLog) > > commit-line limit. 1/2 :-) > > Yes, they're silly. I like what libc++ does, i.e. name the testsuite > directories after the [stable.name] tags in the standard. They have > std/rand/rand.dis/rand.dist.bern/rand.dist.bern.negbin (for some > reason they use "rand.dis" instead of "rand.dist" for the third > component there, which is not what the standard has, > https://eel.is/c++draft/rand.dist.bern.negbin shows the subclause > hierarchy). > > That's still quite unwieldy, so we could remove the repetition and use > 26_numerics/rand/dist/bernoulli/negbin/. The problem now is that it > gets quite cryptic, so finding the tests for the > negative_binomial_distribution is a bit harder if you don't know where > to look (but git grep solves that in less than a second).
Or we could forget about mirroring the nesting in the standard and just use 26_numerics/random/dist/negative_binomial That's still too long for ChangeLogs though.
