On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:25:49 +0100
Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
> > Uh, you *are* testing things that use a library before you stable
> > that library, right?
> 
>  When I was an architecture developer I tried to.  But when
> stabilising a minor version of curl (for example), testing all
> reverse dependencies is no option.  But this broke tests for Bazaar
> for example in stable.

Then this is a legitimate problem that someone needs to know about and
fix. So having src_test turned on globally is a *good* thing.

> Badly written Autoconf systems which will break in src_test() with a
> different version of intltool, which is not a direct dependency.

Again, finding this is good.

> That pitfall hit me several times in the last years. The more, x86
> e.g. ranges from embedded Geode platforms to dual core desktop
> systems and running the sqlite test suite on the first is no fun.  As
> a user I would not accept two hours of build time. Test-driven
> development is great, but not so widely used as one could wish it to
> be.

And if you're on an especially slow platform, as a user you can turn
tests off.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh