Hello, There was some discussion about forcing/not forcing tests in EAPI-1, but there was clearly no compromise. Imho, tests are very important and thus I want to discuss them a little more, but in more sensible fashion.
Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): - not existant - non-functional - not runnable from ebuild - useful but unreasonable resource-wise - useful and reasonable resource-wise - necessary - known to partially fail but with a way of skipping failing tests - known to partially fail but with no easy way of skipping failing tests Is that list comprehensive? Secondly we must answer the question how precisely we want to distinguish them, so users/dev can choose which categories of tests they want to run. What comes to mind is: - run all tests - run only necessary tests - run only reasonable tests - don't run tests at all Again, is that list comprehensive? Please don't post solutions unless we figure out which options we really want to deliver. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
