On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:14:48 Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What, you're saying they all ship with test suites that exist but don't > > work? > > anything that takes more than 10m to test is broken from an user point > of view: you want the application, Indeed, but speaking as a user, one wants the application to build and work, that is after all the whole point of installing a package.
> not having it tested. That all depends. If having it tested means that it _will_ work, I'd be infavour of that. However I do appreciate that having every user's install repeating tests which have been done thousands of times before is probably un-neccessary. How abouot setting the _default_ for test flags to true for '~' builds and false for supposedly stable builds? [ all good stuff ] -- CS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list