Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Karl Berry wrote: > > However, this seems like it would be fairly commonly useful and easy > > enough to do in the canonical test-driver script. So, any chance of > > adding it as a standard feature? Any reasonable way of enabling it would > > be fine, e.g., a flag that can be added to [AM_]LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS. > > Take care since some test logs could be megabytes in size.
I want to put a point in that often users try to be helpful and email that multi-megabyte log file as an email attachment to bug reporting mailing lists that sometimes have a lot of subscribers. This is very painful on the network bandwidth usage. And also every downstream subscriber, perhaps on a metered cell modem data plan, pays the cost of receiving it whether they can help with it or not. If there is some way, clever or not, to encourange the user to compress that log file before attaching it that would save a lot of downstream pain. When compressed that log file is a small fraction of the original size and rarely a problem. Just mentioning it to keep it in the brain cache when thinking about improvements here. :-) Thanks! Bob
