From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:56:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502125640.20201127@snowflake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178070677.1136.23.camel@athena.fprintf.net>
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On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:51:17 -0400
Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Sure, but now you're requiring me to go through all that extra work
> if I want any of the benefits of EAPI=1.
It is likely that EAPI-1 will be stricter in quite a few areas...
> Or, third option, is that everyone marks their packages as "low
> priority tests, don't run them" just to switch to EAPI=1, and we have
> no gain over what we have now.
No, even that's a gain. It means that arch teams *know* when a test
failure isn't a problem. But 'everyone' won't do that.
> I think this thread in general overestimates the value of tests in
> packages.
To maintainers, possibly. Not to arch teams. The way test suites are
now makes arch teams' jobs a lot harder than they should be.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 12:01 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
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 [this message]
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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