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Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 schrieb Rémi Cardona: |
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> Piotr Jaroszyński a écrit : |
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> > On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:53:36 Maurice van der Pot wrote: |
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> >> I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the |
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> >> message I replied to. They both provide more or less the same |
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> >> choice to the user. |
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> > |
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> > Err I wasn't providing any choices for users yet, I only thought |
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> > about the below as things that can be wanted by users/devs and |
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> > asked whether I missed something. How we will end up distinguishing |
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> > them is another story... |
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> > |
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> >> - run all tests |
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> >> - run only reasonable tests |
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> >> - run only necessary tests |
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> >> - don't run tests at all |
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> |
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> Philosophical question : |
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> What's "reasonable"? Where do you draw the line? Same question for |
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> "necessary". |
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Re 'necessary': Tests for scientific packages are surely necessary, i'd |
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even claim they're mandatory. Nothing is as bad as having a program |
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that yields unreproducable (read: wrong) results. |
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Been there, seen that, had the primordial urge to kill things. |
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Danny |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project |
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