FYI, I've been factoring and cleaning up tests, moving from the mk-script-based framework to the Coreutils.pm-based ones. One interesting side effect is that this is removing *thousands* of files from the distribution tarball. On the other hand, each of the converted tests require Perl, but that's a small price... some would even say it's a feature.
"tar tf" says the coreutils-6.10 tarball contained 3354 entries. Currently, we're down to 2772. In the end there will be less than 1000. Here are the remaining tests/* directories: cd tests && for i in join pr sort tac tail test; do \ n=$(find $i -type f|wc -l);printf "$n\t$i\n"; done| sort -nr 627 pr 531 test 405 sort 196 join 132 tail 75 tac _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils