To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>,
        DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: (Fileutils) More test suite & Fetish.pm problems
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From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
Date: 23 Apr 2001 20:36:26 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

| On 23 Apr 2001, Jim Meyering wrote:
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| > Changing the test suite so it accommodates this behavior would be a pain.
|
| I'd think that passing the message through Sed to remove the part before
| the colon, or even just testing whether the message includes _a match_
| for the string you expect (rather than equality to that string) wouldn't
| be hard.  What am I missing?

Doing it a few times isn't too bad.
Doing it 20 or 30 times would be a pain,
especially since its only for non-*nix systems.

I'd much rather fix real bugs than spend time doing that.
Of course, if someone sends in a clean patch relative to
a recent test release, I'll be happy to apply it :-)