I didn't say tests are useless(!), but critical.
Instead of having them in the regular checkout, build them as a separate
project.
This will lower build/configure time, and leave it for OS, libraries, drivers
and apps.
Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle
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> De : Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.mailli...@gmail.com>
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>Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 16h29
>Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum
>to r56081
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>> We don't need to have useless files in tree.
>
>Useless files?
>They're arguably the most important files in the tree.
>
>Working on the codebase should be done directly with the tests for that area.
>The modules and tests are directly related and shouldn't be separated. It's
>like separating twins. Unfortunately, most people checkout trunk and not the
>tests, leaving testing to the build machines.
>
>I'm guessing that people also write lots of test apps to test certain
>functionality of a particular area. These never get committed because there's
>nowhere to commit them, or lost if they do (remember the lena app we used for
>alphablending?)
>Having a ./tests folder will give people somewhere to drop this kind of thing
>and the chance to write bespoke tests outside of the winetest framework.
>
>Obviously the tests shouldn't be compiled under the basic build, instead have
>a flag in the root makefile so they can be compiled as desired.
>This would mean with the flag off everything would build as it does now.
>With the flag on, 'make' would build reactos + tests. 'make module' would
>build the module + its specific tests.
>
>The source for all tests comes to 24MB. It's not gonna flood your bandwidth or
>fill your hard disk.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] On
>Behalf Of Samuel Serapión
>Sent: 08 March 2012 14:35
>To: Sylvain Petreolle; ReactOS Development List
>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum
>to r56081
>
>+1 for keeping rostests separate
>+1 for even more modularity
>
>also i wish we would use/exploit the svn externals feature whenever
>possible instead of importing 3rd party code into our repo
>
>On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreo...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> I fully agree with Timo.
>> We don't need to have useless files in tree.
>> Remember we recently deleted stuff from the main tree for the same reasons :
>> space used and download time.
>>
>> We do need tests, they are critical, but not in every reactos checkout.
>> I am for making tests a complete separated project, which would lower build
>> times even more.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Sylvain Petreolle
>>
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>> De : Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de>
>> À : ReactOS Development List <ros-dev@reactos.org>
>> Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 1h27
>> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum to
>> r56081
>>
>> Am I the only one against that?
>> Tests are tests, not reactos.
>> Why do I need to have another bazillion files in my source tree that I don't
>> need or want?
>> I have ONE checkout of rostests, but a dozen checkouts of reactos. For amd64
>> work I even disabled build of a lot of stuff that was pointless. Now even
>> more stuff spread thoughout the whole tree? Possibly even built by default?
>> Deleting a full reactos checkout is already slow enough. Also every commit
>> to rostetsts is a possible build breaker and can cause massive rebuilds.
>> Configure time will also increase.
>> I would rather prefer to make it even more modular, instead of mixing stuff
>> even more.
>>
>> -1
>>
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