#11701: Add spkg-check to Mercurial
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies: #10594
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):
Replying to [comment:11 leif]:
> Replying to [comment:10 kcrisman]:
> > Agreed - definitely let's not make this standard.
>
> ... or modify the tests run "by default" by patching the Makefile; this
of course requires sorting out which tests fail where (and probably why),
so room for a follow-up I guess.
My point for making it non-standard wasn't the failures, it was the time
required. To install the spkg takes under 5 seconds on my OS X box,
whereas running self-tests takes 23 minutes. We can't add this much time
to the default Sage installation, especially since Mercurial seems to
function just fine -- the failures don't seem to be too important. In my
opinion, if we want to make some tests standard, we have to just run a few
absolutely crucial ones so we don't add too much time; the full test suite
is way too large to include every time.
If we can identify which tests fail and why, and if those particular tests
aren't important for our uses, then I agree that (probably on a follow-up)
we should document those failures, so people know they may not be getting
a fully functional Mercurial installation, and skip those tests. (It
would be nice to do the same for the Python spkg...)
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