From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31315 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2004 13:22:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31308 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 13:22:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com) (81.96.64.123) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2004 13:22:10 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3DDJxP0014603; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:20:09 +0100 Received: (from aph@localhost) by redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i3DDJtQu014599; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:19:55 +0100 From: Andrew Haley MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16507.59643.348460.749466@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:22:00 -0000 To: "David Lichteblau" Cc: Thomas Zander , mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Mauve patches. In-Reply-To: <20040411185745.GD21097@lichteblau.com> References: <200404060956.14298.zander@javalobby.org> <200404110848.06673.zander@javalobby.org> <20040411122255.GC21097@lichteblau.com> <200404111919.24816.zander@javalobby.org> <20040411185745.GD21097@lichteblau.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-q2/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 David Lichteblau writes: > > BTW, to ask a technical question, is the "tagging" of Mauve testcases > used in practice? Yes, it is. > Much of the complexity of the existing build systems stems from the > fact that tests are selected by a non-trivial script. If not for > the tags, something like "find . -name \*.java" would be enough to > select all files. Well, sooner or later we'll be working with 1.5 (Java++? :-) and at that point it'll be pretty useful. So let's keep it, please. > Unless I misunderstood Thomas' question, he could not compile all > of Mauve because his script tried to compile _everything_, as > opposed to those files usually chosen by the standard build system. > I would find it a little confusing if Mauve provided two build > systems, one which uses tags and one which does not. Yes. I suppose Thomas' Ant script should do the right thing with respect to the tags. Andrew.