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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:33:38 +0000
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:25:49 +0100
Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Uh, you *are* testing things that use a library before you stable
> > that library, right?
>=20
> When I was an architecture developer I tried to. But when
> stabilising a minor version of curl (for example), testing all
> reverse dependencies is no option. But this broke tests for Bazaar
> for example in stable.
Then this is a legitimate problem that someone needs to know about and
fix. So having src_test turned on globally is a *good* thing.
> Badly written Autoconf systems which will break in src_test() with a
> different version of intltool, which is not a direct dependency.
Again, finding this is good.
> That pitfall hit me several times in the last years. The more, x86
> e.g. ranges from embedded Geode platforms to dual core desktop
> systems and running the sqlite test suite on the first is no fun. As
> a user I would not accept two hours of build time. Test-driven
> development is great, but not so widely used as one could wish it to
> be.
And if you're on an especially slow platform, as a user you can turn
tests off.
--=20
Ciaran McCreesh
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