From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh4Na-0008TJ-OY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:00:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92562E00E8; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de (mo-p05-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3668BE00E8 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :K2kKYU+nW/MMMlTokcN5Yot1/Bj/FTl+WviP6RIJci0HRMpbh/x+X6ShOQvVOjw+sRJedUIEINGz X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from terra.solaris (p57A4C0AA.dip.t-dialin.net [87.164.192.170]) by post.strato.de (klopstock mo36) (RZmta 18.25) with ESMTP id x03a32l2AFKqmu for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:59:40 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:00:05 +0100 From: Christian Faulhammer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3 Message-ID: <20090310170005.76c207a8@terra.solaris> In-Reply-To: <20090310123514.00fc1ca6@snowcone> References: <1236498557.6854.51.camel@neuromancer> <20090309202624.723e4b2a@snowcone> <20090309223311.4774f0bf@terra.solaris> <20090309213633.4710250e@snowmobile> <20090309232003.09d922a2@terra.solaris> <20090309222511.751c5aea@snowmobile> <20090310123514.00fc1ca6@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/mt34KvGAqW9Fr_T.+.KwWDA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 325308ee-76fb-4046-b092-44ac24fd5e53 X-Archives-Hash: 6b8febaf41f2194f0b139914b60e970f --Sig_/mt34KvGAqW9Fr_T.+.KwWDA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Ciaran McCreesh : > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:58:40 -0700 > Alec Warner wrote: > > You can't test everything. I think for a small project like exherbo > > where everyone basically sees eye to eye on a number of ideas this > > works great. Everyone agrees testing is super and they will fix > > broken tests or RESTRICT them. But Gentoo is bigger, and people > > have varying opinions, and on this topic the opinions are rather > > strong; so I kindly ask that you drop it. There are plenty of > > other far more useful features on your list that are worth your > > time and will actually slide through rather quickly ;) >=20 > Well, the alternative is to drop src_test all together. If a test > failure is meaningless, having the test is meaningless. No, some software like in sci-* has test suites that a user wants to run probably before productively using that software. But the user should opt for and not against it. V-Li --=20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project , #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode --Sig_/mt34KvGAqW9Fr_T.+.KwWDA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm2joUACgkQNQqtfCuFneO+CACgnoU2MgVKkXtglKQ3RZ5EyWYd XWUAn0vKcgWp+2N2lQuhIcw4n7szPfmR =wDYC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mt34KvGAqW9Fr_T.+.KwWDA--