From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HivDb-0005WD-Gu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 16:28:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l41GRIce013407; Tue, 1 May 2007 16:27:18 GMT Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l41GNfuV007849 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 16:23:42 GMT Received: (qmail 2151 invoked by uid 0); 1 May 2007 16:23:40 -0000 Received: from r141.net.upc.cz (HELO ?192.168.1.1?) (62.24.83.141) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 1 May 2007 16:23:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4637698B.8030405@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 18:23:39 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tests References: <200705011508.57220.peper@gentoo.org> <1178035451.20625.10.camel@athena.fprintf.net> In-Reply-To: <1178035451.20625.10.camel@athena.fprintf.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 OpenPGP: id=4E61DE84; url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l41GRIeb013407 X-Archives-Salt: 683d3c7a-9bfa-44dc-a8c5-da8bd9cb4bd6 X-Archives-Hash: 66ffa273cbb0f5eaca7810d1a41672c6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, b= ut there=20 >> was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I w= ant to=20 >> 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 tes= ts >> Is that list comprehensive? >> >> Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distingu= ish=20 >> them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to r= un.=20 >> 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? >> >=20 > 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. >=20 > Daniel >=20 And sometimes these extra deps can result in circular deps. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGN2mKtbrAj05h3oQRAsIPAJ40sOQV97jBCUFAIcKZFHJ1mRiu4QCggfz6 Toh/ZYYpU7lJfmVOqQclaWo=3D =3DULIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list