SY> IMO, none of the core regression tests should rely on any SY> packages being present. That's right. Tests that require packages should fix up load-path the way packages/package-compile.el does. Adrian's other change is useful in this particular case, but very annoying in the very common case where a very short list of assertions is run over and over again in slightly varying contexts. In general, you really need to run test-harness interactively and get the whole list of PASS/FAIL. I tried a similar patch for a few months and decided not to submit it to xemacs-patches. SY> I've seen other projects that distribute a separate SY> "testsuite" package. Maybe this is something we could look SY> into? [1] Martin thinks this is a bad idea, but I'm thinking about it anyway. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.