On Fri, 2019-05-17 at 16:28 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > 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 :/
Sure. Here the webrev with the test: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8203190/02/webrev/ OK to push? Thanks, Severin
