Cool - thanks for checking Greg!

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-10-02 2:42 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>>
>>>> It might still mean that we can save time on tryserver if we only
>>>> build these by default if the user has opted in to running the
>>>> relevant tests.
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Gregory. I really don't see much value in building these
>>>> binaries by default. For the people that use them often enough that
>>>> they are worth having, adding a line to mozconfig is easy enough.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is one concrete advantage to building them, which is if your
>>> change ends up breaking some of them, you'll know immediately and you can
>>> fix it much faster than it you find out about it on the try server and/or
>>> on inbound.
>>>
>>
>> +1. I often break gtests when refactoring code, and it would be super
>> annoying to need to wait to find out about them on try. Given that this
>> impacts me as a bystander and not someone who runs those tests all the
>> time, I don't think that the right solution is for me to personally opt-in
>> to the old behavior in all of my mozconfigs.
>>
>
> Objections noted. I won't move forward and will retain status quo for now.
>
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