On Thu, 29 May 2014 04:09:22 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <st...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 10:09 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > I don't know how much chromium is built and tested on lesser-used > > arches (ie: arm, hppa, ia64, etc), but if there are dev's that try > > and maintain these keywords that aren't in the team, it might be a > > good idea to leave src_test in place, for them. > > Well, Chromium is the only browser I use on my Chromebook - it takes > about 5 hours to compile natively, but I don't run the tests on it. > If it doesn't work... well, it doesn't work... It gets fun when the scrollbar doesn't work on 5% of the sites or so; happened to me, because a dependency of a dependency of Chromium was broken. At which point I really hoped I would've enabled tests on them. Can be glad that the fix didn't involve recompiling Chromium... In general it has always worked well after a compile; but, there's every now and then one or another annoying regression, like recent Chromium had some font issues or some random tabs crash some versions ago and ... If a test catches one of these, you can immediately report the problem; if it is left untested, you'll have to do a debugging adventure instead. While I don't run tests myself; the need for them is clear, for those that aim for more production ready systems (eg. university network PCs). -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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