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From: Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:30:55
Message-Id: 44D3E56D.9040205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default by "Kevin F. Quinn"
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4 Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
5 > I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the
6 > default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have. Far too
7 > many packages fail their test phase.
8 >
9 > Since we encourage users to set CFLAGS in ways that upstream may not
10 > have predicted, if upstream go to the trouble of providing tests it
11 > seems sensible to me that they should be run, unless there is a very
12 > good reason not to run them. This will help pick up faults that are due
13 > to the compiler version, CFLAGS etc much more consistently.
14 >
15 > At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be running with
16 > tests switched on. If the tests are known to fail then the ebuild can
17 > either RESTRICT=test, or just return successfully from src_test()
18 > where the test report is useful even if some tests fail.
19 >
20 > Thoughts?
21 I can say from experience that there are a great heaping load of
22 packages currently that fail their test suite, the sci-team seems to
23 be the best in this regard for passing the tests successfully. If we
24 do in fact plan on making this the default, we should be prepared for
25 a increase in bugs from users who will now have ebuilds stop on
26 failed test suites. While I agree that it would be nice to see more
27 people using test and collision-protect I don't think its something we
28 should enable at this point in time till we have many packages working
29 correctly with the feature. If however people feel that by enabling
30 it, that it'll make us actually fix these issues then I'd like to see
31 it move forward. I'm just curious as to why this has come up suddenly
32 Kevin?
33
34 p.s I hope all dev's run with test and collision-protect, I know I
35 know you don't but I can hope.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>