> That's a real pain how skipped tests just silently pass. Regression tests 
> should catch regressions, not pretend that everything is OK when they in fact 
> didn't test anything

There are several options to resolve this problem without failing the tests:
- you can provide diagnostic message, so passing for configurations missing 
necessary fonts won’t be silent
- create your own font with necessary properties and submit it within the fix

Best Regards,
Alexey


> On Dec 3, 2022, at 2:11 PM, Nikita Gubarkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 19:38:44 GMT, Nikita Gubarkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> It was implemented in JetBrains Runtime a year ago and was ported & 
>>> refactored for this PR
>>> It includes:
>>> - Bitmap glyph loading via Freetype
>>> - Manual scaling & transformation of bitmap glyphs with nearest-neighbor or 
>>> bilinear-mipmap style algorithms depending on the text antialiasing hint
>>> - Storing BGRA glyphs in glyph cache & rendering them as plain images, as 
>>> currently used XRender text drawing functions doesn't support colored glyphs
>>> - Small fixes in related code like null-checks which could cause NPE & 
>>> comment typos
>> 
>> Nikita Gubarkov has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>  Fix pointer to jlong conversion on x86
> 
> That's a real pain how skipped tests just silently pass. Regression tests 
> should catch regressions, not pretend that everything is OK when they in fact 
> didn't test anything. I believe skipping a test should be explicit, it's not 
> a "Passed" nor "Failed" state, it's more like "Unknown". Would be very 
> unfortunate to see green tests in CI and then find a regression which 
> happened million years ago just because this test was skipped all the time 
> but you never knew. Even agreeing on some special exit code for skipped tests 
> would already be a good step forward. Just a point for a discussion.
> 
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> 
> PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/4798

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