Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: changing the developer profile: FEATURES="test" -> FEATURES="test-fail-continue"

["\"Paweł Hajdan, Jr.\"" <phajdan.jr@gentoo.org>]

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On 6/4/10 5:35 PM, Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for a while. Some packages have tests
> that are meant only for upstream in certain conditions
> and are not meant to be ran during installing.

I think that in extreme cases src_test should not call such tests.

> As we have ARCH teams,
> couldn't we think a way in which TEST teams can
> be created? I mean, a bunch of devs only focused on making tests work
> or just restrict them?

I don't think that would be effective. Making the tests work is hard,
especially for packages like gcc, or python. Having FEATURES="test" is
intended to make developers catch these failures before checking in.

However, with many packages failing tests, people started running
FEATURES="-test" or just stopped (or never used) the developer profile.
With FEATURES="test test-fail-continue" we should get best of both
worlds: run tests always, but don't frustrate people by making build
fail "in the middle of long emerge".

Paweł


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