From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28991 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2002 21:54:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 28981 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2002 21:54:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2002 21:54:39 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18QcPX-0005Bk-00; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:55:03 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18QaYD-00072T-00; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:55:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:35:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mike Stump Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: A testcase library Message-ID: <20021223215553.GA26912@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Stump , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <20021223193732.GA17616@nevyn.them.org> <8A6F2AD8-16C0-11D7-8BA6-003065A77310@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8A6F2AD8-16C0-11D7-8BA6-003065A77310@apple.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg01381.txt.bz2 On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:50:24PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote: > On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 11:37 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >I have no idea if you meant that seriously or not... > > I'm serious. > > >think about those, they're meaningless. > > Great, now we have all these meaningless states. No, we don't have them; DejaGNU won't express them. The states are: pass, fail, xpass, xfail, kpass, kfail (and warning, perror, note, untested, unresolved, unsupported) > We already had the ability to add tracking numbers, we already had the > ability to sort reports and put failures with tracking numbers up > higher in priority, if we wanted. We already had a way of knowing if > the report was known. > > I just don't see any advantages yet. Maybe the dejagnu document could > be expanded to include the advantages of these extra states. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer