Am Samstag, 21. November 2015 um 18:54:51, schrieb Scott Kostyshak 
<skost...@lyx.org>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:38:54PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> > On 2015-11-20, Kornel Benko wrote:
> 
> > > To make it clear: Everything ignored cannot be tested. 
> > 
> > Then, there is a fundamental flaw in the test machinery:

We use a tool, ctest, to run our tests.
If you have a C compiler, you would not expect it to behave like lisp compiler.

> > We need a category and rule-set for tests where:
> > 
> > * we don't care for the result because it does not tell us anything about
> >   the "healthiness" of LyX and hence dont run them normally, but
> > 
> > * we may want to run them on special request (because we know the phase of
> >   the moon or have installed a special package or want to check the status
> >   of upstream packages or fixed a nofix bug).
> 
> In this case we can just compare the before results with the results
> after clearing the ignoredTests file.

Yes.

> Scott

        Kornel

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