Re: Installed tests - parallel installability

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 14:17 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the installed tests [1] of libraries are not parallel
> > installable.
> >
> > For example the GTK+ tests are installed in:
> > .../installed-tests/gtk+/
> >
> > When GTK+ 4 will be released, it would be nice to still run the
> > GTK+ 3
> > tests. Especially because GTK+ 3 will be advertised as more stable.
> > But
> > I guess this is true for any library (except when security holes
> > are not
> > fixed in old versions).
> >
> > So for GTK+ 3, the tests should probably be installed in:
> > .../installed-tests/gtk+-3.0/
> >
> > No?
> I would suggest to leave out the + as we do in other filesystem
> locations: /usr/share/gtk-3.0, /etc/gtk-3.0. Other than that, no
> objections, seems like a good idea to me.

It's not a big deal, but I like the idea of matching the pkg-config
name (gtk+-3.0).


-Evan