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 1Hj7uX-0007Ni-Cb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 06:01:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4260HjN026961; Wed, 2 May 2007 06:00:17 GMT Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l425wI3M023120 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 05:58:19 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.11] (car75-2-82-224-45-203.fbx.proxad.net [82.224.45.203]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8975E845 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 07:58:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46382875.7030407@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 07:58:13 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?UsOpbWkgQ2FyZG9uYQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) 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> <20070501183522.7531c0c9@snowflake> <20070501195336.GA23900@kfk4ever.com> <200705012205.54594.peper@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200705012205.54594.peper@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l4260HlK026961 X-Archives-Salt: 015e1a64-ad2c-4344-ada4-55b795b02028 X-Archives-Hash: 9c2454033acdf0ba2b482aafbaf6a8e5 Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski a =C3=A9crit : > On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:53:36 Maurice van der Pot wrote: >> I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the message = I >> replied to. They both provide more or less the same choice to the user. >=20 > Err I wasn't providing any choices for users yet, I only thought about = the=20 > below as things that can be wanted by users/devs and asked whether I mi= ssed=20 > something. How we will end up distinguishing them is another story... >> - run all tests >> - run only reasonable tests >> - run only necessary tests >> - don't run tests at all Philosophical question : What's "reasonable"? Where do you draw the line? Same question for=20 "necessary". These two notions are very much subjective, both in terms of required=20 time, dependencies, but also in terms of perceived usefulness. Cheers, R=C3=A9mi --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list