On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:54:02 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:51:00 -0600
> Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:22:36 +0100
> > Tiziano Müller <dev-z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > * Am I to take it src_test is to remain in its current worthless
> > > > state?
> > > Yes, I'd like to see it enable by default as well, but we have to
> > > discuss that further. So, not suited for a fast eapi release.
> > 
> > Please fix all 'pkg fails tests' bugs in bugzilla first.
> 
> The nice thing about doing it on an EAPI bump is that it's
> incremental. As people move towards EAPI 3, they'll all get caught
> and fixed.

Actually, that's a very good point.

> With the current situation, src_test is worthless because a failure
> doesn't mean there's a problem worth investigating. But if EAPI 3
> starts making src_test "run unless explicitly RESTRICTed or disabled",
> any src_test failure in an EAPI 3 package will tell people something
> requires attention.

Whether it's enabled for EAPI 3 or not, I'd at least like to see 'test'
added to FEATURES in targets/developer/make.defaults now.  That should
(hopefully) raise the visibility somewhat.


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