On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> What is the point of make check then? > > It depends what we make it :) I argue for keeping it simple and stupid. > > Up to 2.0 it was just some object testing of selfcontained binaries > - float conversions, filenames and similar (frankly I have > my doubts about usefulness of them but anyway). > > The problem with LyX is that we depend on so many different beasts that > it's very difficult to say what is mandatory and what just optional, > other distros have different dependecies and sometimes it's even your > choice when installing. How make check should know about this. > > On my distro it's not even predictable what python you have under your > hands by default "python" call and specific machinery is called > in postinstall phase to convert them (that means the python scripts > are no more the same which you tried to run with make check) etc. > >> I think it is possible to cover many (OK, I agree not all) distros. > > I don't see any manpower to do such thing. Frankly we have hard > time to even find someone who has time to release the tarballs. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Scott
