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 1Hiutx-0003HL-U6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 16:08:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l41G7LHp003127; Tue, 1 May 2007 16:07:21 GMT Received: from nemesis.fprintf.net (nemesis.fprintf.net [66.134.112.218]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l41G41Jv030766 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 16:04:01 GMT Received: (qmail 27282 invoked by uid 210); 1 May 2007 12:03:59 -0400 Received: from 65.247.36.242 by nemesis (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.90.2/3186. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(65.247.36.242):SA:0(-3.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.222275 secs); 01 May 2007 16:03:59 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.9 required=5.0 Received: from aa-gw.nexthop.com (HELO ?10.68.253.168?) (dang@fprintf.net@65.247.36.242) by nemesis.fprintf.net with SMTP; 1 May 2007 12:03:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests From: Daniel Gryniewicz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org> References: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 12:04:11 -0400 Message-Id: <1178035451.20625.10.camel@athena.fprintf.net> 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 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l41G7LJm003127 X-Archives-Salt: 2c9d6aeb-dea5-4f6f-862f-afc795180e64 X-Archives-Hash: b88005bf3e9b00c518090da2118dc1cf On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski wrote: > Hello, >=20 > There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, bu= t there=20 > was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I wa= nt to=20 > discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion. >=20 > Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): > - not existant > - non-functional > - not runnable from ebuild > - useful but unreasonable resource-wise > - useful and reasonable resource-wise > - necessary > - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests > - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing test= s > Is that list comprehensive? >=20 > Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distingui= sh=20 > them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to ru= n.=20 > What comes to mind is: > - run all tests > - run only necessary tests > - run only reasonable tests > - don't run tests at all > Again, is that list comprehensive? >=20 Don't forget tests that have heavy requirements to run. Many gnome tests, for example, need a virtual X to run, which puts a new set of DEPENDS requirements on your system. Daniel --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list