On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just saw that we have now two new binary files in the test/ module. > > main/test/testgui/data/svt/complex.ods has a size of 9 424 385 Bytes and > main/test/testgui/data/svt/complex.odt has a size of 27 175 936 Bytes. > > I wonder if SVN is really the best place for files that large. > > I also don't think that these files should be part of the source release. > But what else would have to be removed that depends on these files? > > Any thoughts? >
Something to keep in mind is that we'll probably end up with a large number of test documents, 200+ MB. Not all of them will be large. But if we want to have good test coverage then we'll need test documents to cover all areas, for ODF, MS Binaries and OOXML. So this will grow, over time, to a large test set. This leads to four questions: 1) Should we be testing large/complex documents? I think the answer is "yes". 2) Should such test documents be in SVN? I think they should. 3) Should these documents be in the same source tree with the rest of the code that is downloaded by default for a build? Maybe not. Unless they are needed for a smoke test that should be run by every developer. But if not, maybe they should be stored in its own tree, like ooo/test/trunk or something like that. 4) Should these documents be included in the source distribution? Probably depends on the answer to question 3. Maybe, maybe not. Or maybe we have a separate source distribution artifact only for test-related files? -Rob > Regards, > Andre
