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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 18:35:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501183522.7531c0c9@snowflake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501171828.GL10636@kfk4ever.com>

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On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:28 +0200
Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'd say, let the user decide based on the properties

Too complicated. Bombarding the user with pointless alternatives is not
the same as giving the user choice.

I'm also highly sceptical that the properties you listed are boolean.
Resource hungry on an IP22 could be a walk in the park for an X16...

> fex:

Please don't abuse the English language in that manner.

> I'm sorry if this counts as a solution, but I wasn't sure the list you
> gave was the kind of list we need and I didn't know another way of
> explaining the use of the properties I listed.

Well, every solution offered so far is at least moderately icky... I
believe the idea is to look at the problem in more detail before going
off in what's probably the wrong direction again.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 13:08 [gentoo-dev] tests Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 13:24 ` Josh Sled
2007-05-01 13:32   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 15:50 ` Alec Warner
2007-05-01 16:04 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-01 16:23   ` Vlastimil Babka
2007-05-01 17:18 ` Maurice van der Pot
2007-05-01 17:35   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-05-01 19:53     ` Maurice van der Pot
2007-05-01 20:05       ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-02  5:58         ` Rémi Cardona
2007-05-02  6:53           ` Danny van Dyk
2007-05-01 21:52       ` Josh Saddler
2007-05-01 22:31         ` Stephen Bennett
2007-05-01 22:28           ` Josh Saddler
2007-05-01 22:47             ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 23:08         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 23:06       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 17:58   ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 19:24 ` Rémi Cardona
2007-05-01 20:10   ` Jure Varlec
2007-05-01 22:06     ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-05-01 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-05-01 23:32 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Marius Mauch
2007-05-01 23:46   ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-01 23:55     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02  0:34       ` Brian Harring
2007-05-02 11:52         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02  0:08     ` Robin H. Johnson
2007-05-02  0:12     ` Stephen Bennett
2007-05-02  1:51       ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-05-02  6:49         ` Danny van Dyk
2007-05-02 11:56         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-01 23:56   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-02 10:54   ` Philipp Riegger
2007-05-02 20:05 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-05-02 20:12   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-05-06  8:39     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-05-05 21:17 ` [gentoo-dev] tests Ryan Hill
2007-05-06  4:27   ` Alistair John Bush

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