From: Nikodemus S. <tsi...@cc...> - 2005-04-07 06:17:32
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Peter Van Eynde wrote: > So run-tests.sh is too strong and won't actually tell you anything for > certain. Hmpf. I think I'm going to tag bug #302355 as 'upstream' and only Well, if it passes it tells you a lot. It's just the failures that are less informative... A month or so ago I spent some quality time with tests/, adding BUGS entries for tests that were failing on ppc/Darwin and disabling those (on Darwin only). I think this is the way to go, as a regression suite that does noting but says "oops" isn't very usefull; I don't personally consider a platform on which the suite is expected to fail to be supported in any sensible definition of the word. (Including currently AFAIK sparc/sunos and x86/FreeBSD5, though I'm planning to give the sparc/sunos suite some loving soonish.) Cheers, -- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs." |