Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries

2007-05-01 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Montag 30 April 2007 21:00 schrieb Kevin F. Quinn: The thing about static libraries, is that the ebuild that creates them doesn't know whether anything else will want to use them. It may be that in practice, most libraries are never used in their static form - but the point is that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries

2007-05-01 Thread Radoslaw Stachowiak
On 01/05/07, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone care about static libs except for maybe really really low level stuff? They are useful for rescue operations and whatnot, when a LiveCD or similar is not handy; or perhaps when the computer cannot boot from an alternative medium.

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2007-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2007-05-01 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev list to see. I would like the council to remind everyone that this is not appropriate for any team:

[gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
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): -

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Sled
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): [...] - necessary Could you qualify, please? Is this necessary for the (non-test) build artifact? If so, I'd not call it a test, just part of the build that's

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:24:34 -0400 Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): [...] - necessary Could you qualify, please? Is this necessary for the (non-test) build

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2007-05-01 Thread Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK)
Petteri Räty wrote: Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev list to see. I would like the council to remind everyone that this is not appropriate for any team:

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Alec Warner
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: That time again...

2007-05-01 Thread Alec Warner
Michael Cummings wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:29:43PM +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: You are declared official Project Status Report Gathering Manager. I have to concede, I saw this last thursday and sat on it all weekend, mulling it over. I realize you (most likely) meant it as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:08 +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:08:56PM +0200, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: 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 -

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:28 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say, let the user decide based on the properties Too complicated. Bombarding the user with pointless alternatives is not the same as giving the user choice. I'm also highly sceptical that the properties you

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 19:18:28 Maurice van der Pot wrote: Isn't it easier to list a set of boolean properties of _individual_ tests? It was just a list of different test classes, which came to mind. The question, which still persist, was how precisely we want to divide them into groups as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites media-sound/jsynthlib

2007-05-01 Thread federico
federico ha scritto: William L. Thomson Jr. ha scritto: Last rites for media-sound/jsynthlib Last upstream release was 0.20-beta, released March, 2005. The package has been masked, and will be moved to Java junkyard overlay after 30 days pass. Unless someone cares about this package,

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Rémi Cardona
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:35:22PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:28 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say, let the user decide based on the properties Too complicated. Bombarding the user with pointless alternatives is not the same as giving

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:53:36 Maurice van der Pot wrote: I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the message I replied to. They both provide more or less the same choice to the user. Err I wasn't providing any choices for users yet, I only thought about the below as

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Jure Varlec
On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:24:17 Rémi Cardona wrote: - require other and bigger deps than what the actual package requires Hm, perhaps this one should be split into: -- additional deps are already installed -- additional deps are not yet installed Regards signature.asc Description: This

[gentoo-dev] Re: tests

2007-05-01 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
Firstly each test can be(not all categories are mutually exclusive): (...) How many of these we can find is not really that important. I mentioned the different categories just to show that tests are not black and white and we need more then boolean choice to make good use of them. What we

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Saddler
Maurice van der Pot wrote: fex: Please don't abuse the English language in that manner. Since you took the time to highlight this apparently grave injustice to the English language, would you please explain it to me so I can do better next time? he just doesn't like it because it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:10:28PM +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:24:17 R??mi Cardona wrote: - require other and bigger deps than what the actual package requires Hm, perhaps this one should be split into: -- additional deps are already installed -- additional deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:30 -0700 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway, on the subject of tests...as others have covered the *first* time this was discussed on the lists, mandatory tests being run every time the user installs a package? no. oh hell no. we don't seem to do that much

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Saddler
Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:30 -0700 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway, on the subject of tests...as others have covered the *first* time this was discussed on the lists, mandatory tests being run every time the user installs a package? no. oh hell no. we

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Wednesday 02 of May 2007 00:28:42 Josh Saddler wrote: Not a knee jerk reaction, just a strong one. One of the key reasons why mandatory tests were not desired was the fact that sometimes much more stuff will be installed than what you'd normally get. Exhibit A: robbat2's message just sent

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 1 May 2007 21:53:36 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too complicated. Bombarding the user with pointless alternatives is not the same as giving the user choice. I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the message I replied to. They both provide

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:30 -0700 Josh Saddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway, on the subject of tests...as others have covered the *first* time this was discussed on the lists, mandatory tests being run every time the user installs a package? no. oh hell no. we don't seem to do that much

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 1 May 2007 15:08:56 +0200 Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:32 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: I'd approach it a bit different: Before creating fixed classification groups I'd first identify the attributes of tests that should be used for those classifications. a) cost (in terms of runtime, resource usage, additional deps) b)

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 2 May 2007 01:32:20 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (btw, could someone give some real examples for packages with necessary tests?) There're two groups of packages with necessary tests that come to mind: those that are very compiler / system sensitive (certain scientific

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 01 May 2007 19:46:56 -0400 Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one serious problem with this: Who's going to do the work to figure all this out for the 11,000 odd packages in the tree? This seems like a *huge* amount of work, work that I have no plan on doing for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:46:56PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:32 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: I'd approach it a bit different: Before creating fixed classification groups I'd first identify the attributes of tests that should be used for those classifications.

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 May 2007 19:46:56 -0400 Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one serious problem with this: Who's going to do the work to figure all this out for the 11,000 odd packages in the tree? This seems like a *huge* amount of work, work that I have no plan on doing for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:55:05AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: You're talking implementation details. This isn't the time for that! No-one has worked out what, if anything, is to be done, so you can't know how much work whatever it is is. Having said that, there's no need to figure it out

Re: [gentoo-dev] tests

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 01:12 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2007 19:46:56 -0400 Daniel Gryniewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one serious problem with this: Who's going to do the work to figure all this out for the 11,000 odd packages in the tree? This seems like a