From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hcezw-00044W-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:56:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3E9sgMp009022; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:54:42 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3E9pl5w005151 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:51:48 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2007 09:51:47 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO [192.168.0.102]) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 14 Apr 2007 11:51:47 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28563408 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+UMfEF7rOU4e3Zf18szNvSLPTj9PzVB3i8nCtI/H Wy11W3jSd2Ccfx Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April) From: Matthias Langer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200704141841.03297.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> References: <20070401092940.1B4C26441E@smtp.gentoo.org> <20070413204647.2f3bf04a@snowflake> <46207158.3070103@gentoo.org> <200704141841.03297.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:51:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1176544296.5777.21.camel@sputnik886.lnet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: bd6c8df5-46f1-4519-82d8-b5774456cdc1 X-Archives-Hash: 2f3fea888a21abea82e8d2e28a020e4c > > not having it tested. > That all depends. If having it tested means that it _will_ work, I'd be > infavour of that. Well, the problem is, that a working test suite does not guarantee a working program, as well as a failing test suite doesn't necessarily mean that the program is broken. This doesn't mean that test suites aren't useful (i tend to write lot's of unit tests when I'm programming myself), but I would say that they are targeted at developers, both up- and downstream, not at end users. Thus, considering all arguments i've seen so far, i would highly appreciate it, if various src_test functions in the tree see some love, maybe encouraged due a changed policy, but i don't think that package managers should enable test suites by default. If you want some test action, try sys-devel/autoconf with tests activated with the package manager of your choice ;-) Matthias -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list