On 17/05/2019 12:37, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
snip... > > The reason was that it's not a good test to be run automatically. It > would have to have some heuristic which it uses as "passed" and "fail". > Checking in the code anyway has a tendency for it to bitrot. If you > really feel strongly about it, I can add it. FWIW, the reference to the > test isn't going away so it'll be available either way. > I get that, but there are other manual tests in the repositories. I saw one yesterday that required downloading a font before running it. I think it better to have everything in one place rather than relying on someone to find this e-mail thread. The bitrot argument seems a little odd, given it would be more open to updates in the repositories rather than on a web server where only you can update it :/ -- Andrew :) Senior Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/0xCFDA0F9B35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 https://keybase.io/gnu_andrew
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