Tom Keffer <[email protected]> writes:

> Version 5.3.1 is ready.
>
> There is no change in the code base, only in the test suite. Frankly, I
> don't know why we release the test suite as part of a packaged
> distribution.

You absolutely should include the test suite in the distribution
tarballs.  pkgsrc, as an exmample, and I hope all packaging systems, has
a test target as well as build/install/package targets.  Thus one can
run the tests before using the package, and verify that the code, with
the intalled dependencies/compilers/etc. is ok.

This is a bigger deal with programs in languages with tricky compilers
(e.g. "does gcc X miscompile this code on CPU Foo").  But it's still the
right approach always.

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