From: Sam S. <sd...@gn...> - 2010-11-24 14:54:35
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> * Fred Cohen <sp...@ny...g> [2010-11-21 13:18:32 -0800]: > >> are you aware of "make check" and "make mod-check"? >> (check your Makefile!) > > I am - but that is external to lisp - not internal to it. The point - > again - is that once I install (read untar) and start lisp, I should > never have to use anything outside of it to do whatever I want to > do. In this way I can deliver (and have and use) a version where I > don't have to keep playing systems administrator (and neither doe3s > anyone else) and where I can test things I am about to use just before > I use them and just after I use them (for example I can verify that a > particular set of functions are working properly just before and after > use) sort of like I would have a built-in self-test for any other > instrument I use. are you saying that a clisp binary distribution must come with a test suite? this is somewhat unorthodox... -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) http://ffii.org http://thereligionofpeace.com http://openvotingconsortium.org http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://jihadwatch.org The early worm gets caught by the bird. |