FYI: big change in testing framework

2007-09-15 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just pushed a large change to coreutils' testing framework. Over 30 change sets: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=summary Think of it as a good first cut. There's still more to do. One notable change: it introduces a (one-line) dependency on GNU Make, but that is trivial t

Re: [RFC] linecut addition

2007-09-15 Thread Steven Schubiger
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your range_lines function reads only one buffer's worth of data. Uhm, yes. I noticed it later on. > While I did mention head, above, a subsequent message pointed > to tail as a better source of relevant code: > > >> However, another possibility is to ext

Re: [RFC] linecut addition

2007-09-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Steven Schubiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>From a conversation with Jim: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:27:34PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> If you end up adding a program to coreutils, >> it may make more sense to add a tiny bit of code to "head", >> to make it work the way you want, and then