Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Tim Ellison
karan malhi wrote: > Could there be a switch to over-ride the global exclude list > entry/entries? This way a module by default would use a global exclude > list and also have the freedom to ignore it and use the module exclude > list. In the incoming HARMONY-57 contribution the list is 'global',

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
karan malhi wrote: Could there be a switch to over-ride the global exclude list entry/entries? This way a module by default would use a global exclude list and also have the freedom to ignore it and use the module exclude list. I don't know what having two exclude lists would mean - a test

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > Tim Ellison wrote: >> >> The exclusion list is implemented as a (declarative) XML file read when >> the tests run -- in HARMONY-57 you can see one in >> Harmony_Tests/src/test/resources/config/jcltest-excludes.xml >> >> Picking an entry at random from there: >>

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Tim Ellison wrote: The exclusion list is implemented as a (declarative) XML file read when the tests run -- in HARMONY-57 you can see one in Harmony_Tests/src/test/resources/config/jcltest-excludes.xml Picking an entry at random from there: ... Undiagnosed failur

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread karan malhi
Could there be a switch to over-ride the global exclude list entry/entries? This way a module by default would use a global exclude list and also have the freedom to ignore it and use the module exclude list. Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: However, I did imagine that we'd give the modules a bit of fr

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Mikhail Loenko
On 2/16/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's true, but I always imagined that people would be working in > > the modules anyway, so there isn't much gain. > > Modules should be as self-sufficient as we can make them, so devolving > tests and their exclude lists into a module m

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Liang
+1 Richard Liang China Software Development Lab, IBM Stepan Mishura wrote: Did anybody think of creating a 'global' (i.e. shared by all modules) exclude list or every module will have its own exclude list? Or Harmony tests will always pass and we don't need it at all :-) I see at least the fo

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Stepan Mishura
On 2/16/06, Tim Ellison gmail.com> wrote: > Applying a style sheet makes it easy to read the exclusions list in > glorious technicolor, either in an individual module or as a combined > global view. I see. And global view will be very helpful Thanks, Stepan On 2/16/06, Tim Ellison gmail.com>

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Stepan Mishura
On 2/16/06, Geir Magnusson Jr pobox.com> wrote: > > > > Stepan Mishura wrote: > > Did anybody think of creating a 'global' (i.e. shared by all modules) > > exclude list or every module will have its own exclude list? Or Harmony > > tests will always pass and we don't need it at all :-) > > That wo

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-16 Thread Tim Ellison
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Stepan Mishura wrote: >> Did anybody think of creating a 'global' (i.e. shared by all modules) >> exclude list or every module will have its own exclude list? Or Harmony >> tests will always pass and we don't need it at all :-) > > That would be the goal :) > >> I see a

Re: [classlib] do we need a global exclude list?

2006-02-15 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Stepan Mishura wrote: Did anybody think of creating a 'global' (i.e. shared by all modules) exclude list or every module will have its own exclude list? Or Harmony tests will always pass and we don't need it at all :-) That would be the goal :) I see at least the following benefits of creat