Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 20.04.2017 23:58: > As a refresh of everyone's memory (because mine needed it). This is a > feature I added back in 2011 when the i18n support was initially > added. > > There was concern at the time that we would inadvertently mark > plumbing messages for translation, particularly something in a shared > code path, and this was a way to hopefully smoke out those issues with > the test suite. > > However compiling with it breaks a couple of dozen tests, I stopped > digging when I saw some broke back in 2014. > > What should be done about this? I think if we're going to keep them > they need to be run regularly by something like Travis (Lars CC'd), > however empirical evidence suggests that not running them is just fine > too, so should we just remove support for this test mode? > > I don't care, but I can come up with the patch either way, but would > only be motivated to write the one-time fix for it if some CI system > is actually running them regularly, otherwise they'll just be subject > to bitrotting again. >
I use that switch when I change something that involves l10n, but usually I run specific tests only. To be honest: I have to make sure not to get confused by (nor forget one of) the build flag GETTEXT_POISON and the environment variable GIT_GETTEXT_POISON. I'm not sure I always tested what I meant to test... Michael
