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Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr JaroszyĆski wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there |
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>> was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to |
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>> discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion. |
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>> |
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>> Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): |
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>> - not existant |
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>> - non-functional |
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>> - not runnable from ebuild |
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>> - useful but unreasonable resource-wise |
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>> - useful and reasonable resource-wise |
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>> - necessary |
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>> - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests |
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>> - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing tests |
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>> Is that list comprehensive? |
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>> Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distinguish |
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>> them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to run. |
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>> What comes to mind is: |
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>> - run all tests |
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>> - run only necessary tests |
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>> - run only reasonable tests |
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>> - don't run tests at all |
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>> Again, is that list comprehensive? |
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> Don't forget tests that have heavy requirements to run. Many gnome |
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> tests, for example, need a virtual X to run, which puts a new set of |
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> DEPENDS requirements on your system. |
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> Daniel |
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And sometimes these extra deps can result in circular deps. |
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster) |
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