[gentoo-dev] tests

["Piotr Jaroszyński" <peper@gentoo.org>]

Hello,

There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there 
was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to 
discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion.

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 tests
Is that list comprehensive?

Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distinguish 
them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to run. 
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?

Please don't post solutions unless we figure out which options we really want 
to deliver.

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Best Regards,
Piotr Jaroszyński
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