Hi Gary,
It might be worth considering porting all the changes which have occurred within the 1.3 line into the 'test_suite' branch. A large number of changes have been made to the 1.3 line and hence the branch is quite out of sync. I believe that porting the changes will already cause at least one 'conflict'. It could soon get to a stage where it will be very difficult to update.
Cheers,
Edward
P.S. The link to the description on how to do this porting is https://mail.gna.org/public/relax-devel/2006-11/msg00049.html (Message-id: <7f080ed10611020125n56593f0dpf9df5902dcd82034@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>). Don't worry about stuffing things up, everything is reversible.