On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 > Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > > something similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The > > testsuite is a huge time-suck and only useful to developers IMO > > (always expected to fail and primarily meant to be used to check for > > regressions between patchsets). I'm a big supporter of > > FEATURES="test" by default and I think this is a small step towards > > that. > > This step is so tiny that we wont ever reach the goal like this. I was hoping it would set a precedent and then people would start thinking of splitting up test into categories, maybe even start a thread about it ;). > Let's > start to properly classify test into categories, like for instance > > - expected to be run (cheap, no silly deps) > - good thing if run (still reasonable wrt resources) (current src_test) > - if you are the maintainer or simply curious. (boost, jtreg and > friends) Something like "dev-test" or "qa-test"? I can think of a couple packages.. > ... and improve on how to configure Portage whether to run tests of any > given category. Yeah I'd love to be able to do something like emerge TESTS="dev qa system -extradeps -expensive" @world. -- gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org
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