On 4/30/13 8:25 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or something
> similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control.  The testsuite is a huge
> time-suck and only useful to developers IMO (always expected to fail and
> primarily meant to be used to check for regressions between patchsets).  I'm a
> big supporter of FEATURES="test" by default and I think this is a small step
> towards that.

+1

> I'll make these changes at the same time as 4.7.3 is bumped to minimize
> rebuilding but of course stable versions will be affected as well.  That's 
> just
> waiting for me to go through the open bugs so probably end of weekish.

Sounds good.

> I'd also like to drop graphite support for versions 4.4 and 4.5.  We use a
> patch to dlopen graphite libs but older versions were written for 
> ppl-0.10/0.11
> (0.12 is the current version) so I doubt they still work properly (missing
> symbols and whatnot).  Some archs still have 4.5 as the latest stable but
> graphite isn't a "supported" feature and the number of users on those archs is
> likely tiny.

Yeah, +1 as well.

Paweł


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