Hi, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:58:40 -0700 > Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > You can't test everything. I think for a small project like exherbo > > where everyone basically sees eye to eye on a number of ideas this > > works great. Everyone agrees testing is super and they will fix > > broken tests or RESTRICT them. But Gentoo is bigger, and people > > have varying opinions, and on this topic the opinions are rather > > strong; so I kindly ask that you drop it. There are plenty of > > other far more useful features on your list that are worth your > > time and will actually slide through rather quickly ;) > > Well, the alternative is to drop src_test all together. If a test > failure is meaningless, having the test is meaningless. No, some software like in sci-* has test suites that a user wants to run probably before productively using that software. But the user should opt for and not against it. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
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