From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 08:53:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705020853.32461.kugelfang@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46382875.7030407@gentoo.org>
Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 schrieb Rémi Cardona:
> Piotr Jaroszyński a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:53:36 Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> >> I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the
> >> message I replied to. They both provide more or less the same
> >> choice to the user.
> >
> > Err I wasn't providing any choices for users yet, I only thought
> > about the below as things that can be wanted by users/devs and
> > asked whether I missed something. How we will end up distinguishing
> > them is another story...
> >
> >> - run all tests
> >> - run only reasonable tests
> >> - run only necessary tests
> >> - don't run tests at all
>
> Philosophical question :
>
> What's "reasonable"? Where do you draw the line? Same question for
> "necessary".
Re 'necessary': Tests for scientific packages are surely necessary, i'd
even claim they're mandatory. Nothing is as bad as having a program
that yields unreproducable (read: wrong) results.
Been there, seen that, had the primordial urge to kill things.
Danny
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 6:56 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
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 [this message]
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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