On Tue, 01 May 2007 21:51:17 -0400
Daniel Gryniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sure, but now you're requiring me to go through all that extra work
> if I want any of the benefits of EAPI=1.

It is likely that EAPI-1 will be stricter in quite a few areas...

> Or, third option, is that everyone marks their packages as "low
> priority tests, don't run them" just to switch to EAPI=1, and we have
> no gain over what we have now.

No, even that's a gain. It means that arch teams *know* when a test
failure isn't a problem. But 'everyone' won't do that.

> I think this thread in general overestimates the value of tests in
> packages.

To maintainers, possibly. Not to arch teams. The way test suites are
now makes arch teams' jobs a lot harder than they should be.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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