tags 827222 + wontfix
thanks
Hi Ed,
> diffoscope: Support a timeout on the individual commands invoked
> by diffoscope
Firstly, thanks for the report. I can certainly understand that it can
be frustrating when diffoscope times out. :/
However, having an individual timeout on the invoked commands means
that the generated reports will sometimes contain the extra diff data
and sometimes not.
This non-determinism is not a big problem from a pure reproducibility point
of view, but IMHO developer tools should contain as little "magic" as possible
and — above all — should produce entirely consistent output. For example. I can
imagine it being even more frustrating to be grepping for a particular string
in the output for it to sometimes appear and sometimes not depending on CPU
load, wasting precious time and cognitive load.
Thus, I am marking this as wontfix.
(If it helps, I notice that you reported this against diffoscope 54. In the
meantime, we have improved the performance of diffoscope quite considerably
so these timeouts are far less common.)
Regards,
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