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From: "Mike Z." <shootingstar@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: Documentation Update
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:08:14
Message-Id: 4095FB7D-F9A9-40BA-A87D-B53159AF98E0@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: Documentation Update by Grobian
1 On 26/08/2005, at 1:31 PM, Grobian wrote:
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5 > Mike Z. wrote:
6 >
7 >> Definitely, compilation is fine, but you need to have some sort of
8 >> runtime testing as well. On the note of libraries, I would think,
9 >> rather than keywording libraries that compile, we should wait
10 >> until an application that requires them also needs to be
11 >> keyworded. This will probably depend on which library it is, but
12 >> it'd mean that we have a full deptree for each application, as
13 >> well as a useful real-world test case.
14 >>
15 >
16 > This is in general the case. We cannot keyword a library without
17 > having it tested. My keyword for mp (the editor) was an example of
18 > this, I needed something small to test libpcre. I think when
19 > people report a library working/compiling, they use the library in
20 > some application. Maybe that application is not in portage, or so
21 > big that it isn't an appropriate test case,
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23 It's a good point, that's why I mentioned that libraries would need
24 to be assessed on a case-by-case basis, (although applications
25 outside of portage are outside our scope).
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27 > but I'd still like to keyword (unstable) libraries before a
28 > separate bug for an application using the library is there, because
29 > it's enormously annoying to have to keyword a whole tree of
30 > dependencies to figure out the 6th level dependency does not and
31 > will never compile.
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33 That wasn't exactly my point, my point was that we should hold off
34 keywording libraries until they will actually be used by an
35 application that is keyworded, and hence properly tested.
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37 With libraries it's important to consider what will actually be
38 compiled against them (the reverse deptree) - ie, the library might
39 compile, but how do we know applications will compile/run against it?
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41 Well in that case, we have to test them... and if we've tested them
42 (assuming they pass, or are modified to pass), then we can keyword them.
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44 I'm only suggesting that it makes more sense to test/keyword
45 libraries with applications, rather than on their own.
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47 Mike Z. [shootingstar]
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