Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 schrieb Rémi Cardona: > Piotr Jaroszyński a écrit : > > On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 21:53:36 Maurice van der Pot wrote: > >> I'm not sure why this is a reply to my message instead of the > >> message I replied to. They both provide more or less the same > >> choice to the user. > > > > Err I wasn't providing any choices for users yet, I only thought > > about the below as things that can be wanted by users/devs and > > asked whether I missed something. How we will end up distinguishing > > them is another story... > > > >> - run all tests > >> - run only reasonable tests > >> - run only necessary tests > >> - don't run tests at all > > Philosophical question : > > What's "reasonable"? Where do you draw the line? Same question for > "necessary". Re 'necessary': Tests for scientific packages are surely necessary, i'd even claim they're mandatory. Nothing is as bad as having a program that yields unreproducable (read: wrong) results.
Been there, seen that, had the primordial urge to kill things. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
