On 2012-08-11 00:30 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sat Aug 11 2012 Leo wrote: >> A few weeks ago I upgraded to BBDB git head and experienced some odd >> behaviours that I have to revert to my last working copy which is some >> months old. > > Certainly it would be good if you could post here if anything > appears to be a true regression.
I'll do so next round. >> BBDB2 has some nice tests to ensure regression doesn't happen as >> often. Would that be a good idea for bbdb3? > > I guess "in principle yes" - yet setting up such a test suite and > making sure that it does what it is supposed to do, is by itself a > significant project, even if there was such a thing for BBDB2. There were quite some tests in BBDB2. I remembered running them and only two failures. > I think it happens for good reasons that the GNU Emacs project (and > most of its subprojects I am aware of) does not have such test > suites. There is not enough manpower available to make such a thing > work effectively. Emacs maintainers have been fixing same bugs every once in a while so they have learnt the lesson and started using regression tests. See test/ in emacs source tree. BTW, (bbdb-defstruct record firstname lastname affix aka organization phone address mail notes cache) We should rename `notes' in the above to `ext' (for extensions). `notes' and `note' are both used in the BBDB and they confuse me every time. Leo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
