From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Thomas <zander@javalobby.org>
Cc: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Some issues..
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16529.7946.481687.868491@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404291517.22903.zander@javalobby.org>
Thomas writes:
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> On Thursday 29 April 2004 13:39, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I don't see the problem, really. Â If it doesn't run on some system,
> > what is lost? Â All that happens is a few test failures.
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> For most test environments I make the whole build fail as soon as a test
> fails; this is implemented in the ant-based mauve test as well.
> The reason for this is simple; if a test fails its a regression bug; you can't
> commit changes while you have a regression bug.
Okay, but if you're going to insist on this you need a way to mark
known/expected failures: does any VM pass everything? So, why not
mark this whole thing as "known to fail" on Windows and move on?
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 9:12 Jeroen Frijters
2004-04-25 11:10 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-04-29 11:41 ` Andrew Haley
2004-04-29 13:16 ` Thomas
2004-04-29 15:29 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2004-05-01 9:49 ` Thomas Zander
2004-05-02 12:27 ` Andrew Haley
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2004-04-03 13:05 Thomas Zander
2004-04-03 13:16 ` Andrew Haley
2004-04-03 13:41 ` Thomas Zander
2004-04-03 15:42 ` Andrew Haley
2004-04-03 16:06 ` Thomas Zander
2004-04-15 22:22 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-04-16 9:31 ` Andrew Haley
2004-04-16 11:29 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-04-16 12:04 ` Andrew Haley
2004-04-22 21:41 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-04-15 22:14 ` Mark Wielaard
2004-05-07 11:54 ` John Leuner
2004-05-07 13:25 ` Thomas
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