Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

[Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org>]

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Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there 
>> was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to 
>> discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion.
>>
>> Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive):
>> - not existant
>> - non-functional
>> - not runnable from ebuild
>> - useful but unreasonable resource-wise
>> - useful and reasonable resource-wise
>> - necessary
>> - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests
>> - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing tests
>> Is that list comprehensive?
>>
>> Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distinguish 
>> them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to run. 
>> What comes to mind is:
>> - run all tests
>> - run only necessary tests
>> - run only reasonable tests
>> - don't run tests at all
>> Again, is that list comprehensive?
>>
> 
> Don't forget tests that have heavy requirements to run.  Many gnome
> tests, for example, need a virtual X to run, which puts a new set of
> DEPENDS requirements on your system.
> 
> Daniel
> 
And sometimes these extra deps can result in circular deps.
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Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
Gentoo/Java
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