Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-15 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:16:51PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2008 06:45:16 jerry gay wrote: > > > during this week's design meeting, i mentioned that i think it's time > > to rename 'spectest_regression' to 'test'. we didn't discuss it much, > > but i imagine something like: >

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: >> >> jerry gay wrote: >> A combined harness is much better in terms of reporting. > > Yes. > a combined harness is much easier now that we require T::H 3. anybody with TH3-shaped tuits who could take a

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-11 Thread Allison Randal
Moritz Lenz wrote: jerry gay wrote: A combined harness is much better in terms of reporting. Yes. the tests we expect to pass reliably should be the default tests we run. we expect all spectest_regression tests to pass reliably. the default test target should always be named 'test'. it seems

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:26:19PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Therefore I'd like to rename 'spectest_regression' to 'spectest', and > provide a 'spectest_full' for running all tests. Attached patch does > that, thoughts (and testing on various platforms) welcome. (To > paraphrase Nicholas: "Works

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread chromatic
On Friday 10 October 2008 06:45:16 jerry gay wrote: > during this week's design meeting, i mentioned that i think it's time > to rename 'spectest_regression' to 'test'. we didn't discuss it much, > but i imagine something like: > >   test : coretest codetest spectest_regression > > with appropriat

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:03:35PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > > during this week's design meeting, i mentioned that i think it's time > > to rename 'spectest_regression' to 'test'. > > Even better ;-) Not necessarily. Make 'spectest_regression' doesn't work for people who don't have command-li

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people who try out Rakudo want to inform us about hanging or > failing "make spectest" - which is expected to fail until we implement > all of Perl 6 that is currently tested. > > Therefore I'd like to rename 'spectest_r

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
jerry gay wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Moritz Lenz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Many people who try out Rakudo want to inform us about hanging or >> failing "make spectest" - which is expected to fail until we implement >> all of Perl 6 that is currently tested. >> >> Therefore I'd