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Hi, |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:58:40 -0700 |
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> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > You can't test everything. I think for a small project like exherbo |
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> > where everyone basically sees eye to eye on a number of ideas this |
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> > works great. Everyone agrees testing is super and they will fix |
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> > broken tests or RESTRICT them. But Gentoo is bigger, and people |
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> > have varying opinions, and on this topic the opinions are rather |
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> > strong; so I kindly ask that you drop it. There are plenty of |
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> > other far more useful features on your list that are worth your |
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> > time and will actually slide through rather quickly ;) |
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> Well, the alternative is to drop src_test all together. If a test |
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> failure is meaningless, having the test is meaningless. |
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No, some software like in sci-* has test suites that a user wants to |
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run probably before productively using that software. But the user |
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should opt for and not against it. |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/> |
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