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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdelibs (at least) : test building by default
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2007-10-06 11:34:45
Message-ID: 200710061234.46101.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk
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On Saturday 06 October 2007 12:13:49 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 06 October 2007 12:41:46 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > Rafael, did or did I get that wrong?
> > "But even that is not the point... as Thomas has said on a message before
> > the important thing is that tests should be ran for keeping up the
> > quality of the final product (is not a "for making them compile" only
> > discussion)."
>
> Only that if you have changed something that could affect the behavior or
> something that a test is related to, you should run it (and I didn't mean
> automatically).
>
> Hmm... but probably we could do it even automatically as Olivier
> suggested... but then comes this problem.
>
> What problems has tests without X ? Those that hasn't got GUI should work
> nice...

And some tests (e.g. in kdepimlibs/kcal) take a very long time to run - enough 
for a couple of cups of coffee. Although there is still the option of killing 
tests if they are taking too long.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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