Tests are continually run, not continuously

[jaraco]

Your README has this:

Tests are continuously run using Travis-CI.

There's a slight difference between "continuously" and "continually", and y'all are using the wrong one. Basically, continuously means "no gaps" where "continually" means "regularly, but often". So, road construction would be continual, because the workers go home at night. A mathematical function might be continuous if it doesn't have gaps.

If tests were continuously run, that would mean that the testing process never terminates (and thus would never give a result). This would defeat the point of testing. I'm guessing this isn't what you mean. Continual testing would mean that tests are run periodically and regularly (probably whenever you push a commit).

http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/continual-continuous/

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/irc/issue/51
• Originally reported by: Peter Harpending
• Originally created at: 2015-01-14T14:31:48.415

[jaraco]

Oops, I accidentally submitted this twice.

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Original comment by: Peter Harpending

[jaraco]

Duplicate of #50.

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Original comment by: Peter Harpending