On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:02:54 +0100 (CET) Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> said:
> > more answers > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:11 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote : > >> tests are for developpers, not packagers > > > > That is terribly wrong. Packagers care about testsuites for one simple > > reason: as thoroughly as developers may be testing the code, that will > > never guarantee proper behaviour on the system on which the code is built. > > a test suite does not guarantee proper behavior. It's **unit** test suite. > So only small parts of code are written. So a more complex code can have > invalid results while the unit tests are running correctly > > > When creating packages for Debian, I /do/ care about the testsuites because > > the testsuite not failing is the only reliable thing telling me the lib is > > not utterly broken on the system it is being built on. > > packagers as well as users or developpers can run the tests. If the tests > fail, then you can report a bug, with or without a patch. You do care. > Good. > > > I understand users not listening or unwilling to fix the suite to fit their > > needs is a pain, but let's not make it an even greater pain for people who > > just want to use it and manage to. Things have improved a lot as far as > > packaging is concerned in the last months, and this is clearly a step > > backwards. > > keeping the unit tests inside the source code is a step backward ? Because > that's what I want. Putting the unitt tests outside makes impossible (at > least, i don't see anyway of doing that) coverage support. And that is for > me a big step backward. > > So i will revert raster's changes and put the tests again in the source > code. you can handle the gentoo devs/users then who insist on running them as part of their ebuilds. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
