On April 10, 2012 06:45:17 AM Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> That having said, CDash was designed with CMake in mind. We already > >> depend on CMake and CTest. > > > > We actually do not depend on CTest, that is an optional tool, one can > > run the tests without ctest (in fact I've never used CTest on my > > machines). > > I stand corrected, you are right about that. You can use "make test" > without getting involved with CTest. > Actually, make test invokes CTest behind the scenes[1]. That being said, if we aren't uploading results anywhere, CTest only runs the test executables and offers nothing else (in this case). If tomorrow we drop CMake/CTest, the tests would still run fine as is.
Matthew [1] http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Testing_With_CTest
