Re: standard for internal-only tests?

2009-08-01 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Yanick Champoux # on Saturday 01 August 2009 09:19: >To get around this problem, what I sometime do is to use the >environment TEST_AUTHOR, but instead of just setting it to a true > value, I set it to the list of modules I own.  E.g., As long as you don't mind running others' test

Re: standard for internal-only tests?

2009-08-01 Thread Yanick Champoux
Elliot Shank wrote: David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:51:57AM -0700, Jonathan Swartz wrote: Is there a standard for signifying internal-only tests, and for make test to figure out when they should run? The normal way is to have them skip unless some magic environment variable

Re: standard for internal-only tests?

2009-08-01 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
> IMHO, you should still include author-only tests in your published > distributions, even if they don't run during the usual "test" > target. That way, you can still get patches from developers who can't > (or won't) pull the code from the repository. Frankly, I'm not too worried about missing o

Re: standard for internal-only tests?

2009-08-01 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Aug 1, 2009, at 7:59 AM, David Golden wrote: Wow, putting them in MANIFEST.skip - what a simple and great idea. :) I don't even need the environment variable in that case. Anyone who is running 'make test' in the git source will see the internal tests, as they should...anyone who has the

Re: standard for internal-only tests?

2009-08-01 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Swartz wrote: > Wow, putting them in MANIFEST.skip - what a simple and great idea. :) I > don't even need the environment variable in that case. Anyone who is running > 'make test' in the git source will see the internal tests, as they > should...anyone who