John McCabe-Dansted <[email protected]> writes:
> I don't think we have discussed what the benefit of having keystest
> in-tree is. LyX can run without keytest, and keytest can be applied to
> software other than LyX, so it is not strongly coupled to LyX, and
> splitting it off would be a possibility. I am thinking of using
> keytest as a general tool to test any software that has a rich
> keyboard accessible GUI, at which point it may make sense to split it
> off from LyX. Keytest is at 150K, and AFAICT I am the only person who
> uses it. At what point does the overhead of keeping keytest in the LyX
> tree outweigh the benefit?

If you make it usable for programs other than LyX, then I think it would
make a lot of sense to split it off.

150k is no overhead for LyX, but having something in LyX which is a
copy of a program distributed separately is an overhead.

>> Uhhm.. I'm not sure whether I'll like that all the output is added to
>> svn too. What do others think?
>
> As of yet keytest has found ~50 bugs. Each of the recipes is about 100
> bytes. So the recipes for all known automatically generated bugs would
> take 5k, compared to 150k for all of keytest. I don't have a strong
> belief that this information really belongs in svn, but it is small
> compared to the rest of keytest.

I think it is not a matter of size. It is better to have all bug reports
into the bug tracker, instead of adding a new place where to look.

JMarc

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