[patch] Add subsection about module testing to developer guide

0001-Add-subsection-about-module-testing-to-developer-gui.patch (text/plain), 1.77 KB, created by Ulrich Müller on 2023-06-04 17:42:32 UTC

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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 19:35:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add subsection about module testing to developer guide
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* doc/developer-guide.txt: Add subsection about module testing.
Thanks to [e-mail] for the suggestion. Bug 907844.

Original-author: Lemon Lime <[e-mail]>
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907844
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
---
 ChangeLog               | 5 +++++
 doc/developer-guide.txt | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ce13578..afa6885 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
[phone]  Ulrich Müller  <[e-mail]>
+
+	* doc/developer-guide.txt: Add subsection about module testing.
+	Thanks to [e-mail] for the suggestion. Bug 907844.
+
 2023-05-11  Ulrich Müller  <[e-mail]>
 
 	* bin/eselect.in: Update shebang to use EPREFIX. Bug 905934.
diff --git a/doc/developer-guide.txt b/doc/developer-guide.txt
index 694b64d..16393cb 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guide.txt
+++ b/doc/developer-guide.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ All modules contributed to eselect should have a header indicating
 copyright. This must be an exact copy of the header in the above
 example (except for the years, of course).
 
+Adding modules for testing
+--------------------------
+
+eselect modules can be manually added to the system. This is specially
+useful when an eselect module is being developed and needs testing.
+Copying (or symlinking) the eselect module to ``~/.eselect/modules/``
+will make eselect aware of it.
+
 Standard action names
 ---------------------
 
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