Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Do you mean with the patch in this email? Or do you mean on current > master, after commit 86325e50?
with the patch, as you found out. > Yes we will have to discuss this. One issue is that you need a lot of > dependencies to run all the tests. Another issue is that a couple of > commits have broken many (100s) of tests: > > edd37de8 > 8bd66109 > > Both commits did not introduce bugs themselves (although they might have > introduced regressions from the perspective of the user) but they did > expose current LyX bugs. I'm not sure what can be done here. Either we > turn the tests off in order to get cleaner test output or we fix the > exposed bugs: > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9633 I am a bit confused. I thought my fix which I just submitted would address this? > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9744 I think the automatic part of this should go into 2.2.0. This is easy to do and safe and would both help us in testing and the users. I cannot comment on the parallel configuration of both font engines, since I do not understand the LaTeX font machinery well enough, I think here we should rely on Günters judgement since he knows this stuff well. > Yes, Kornel has improved things a lot for this. To run with 8 cores you > can do > ctest -j8 Thanks, I'll try that. > There are still problems with running the tests in parallel. I run them > on just one core to be safe, but I think a reasonable approach is to run > them on multiple cores, then re-run the failed test. So something like: > > ctest -j8 > ctest --rerun-failed > > In other words, I think that there is more of a concern of tests failing > when they should pass than the other way around, when doing the tests in > parallel. OK, one could still use the parallel version for quick testing what a particular change does, and the serial one for final verification. This would already save time. LyX is currently not very well suited for doing test driven development, but I can tell that (if the infrastructure is there) one gets good results very fast, and it even makes fun (despite being a buzz-word). Therefore I am trying to push for it. Georg
