From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18028 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2004 15:29:22 -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 18019 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2004 15:29:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com) (81.96.64.123) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2004 15:29:21 -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 i3TFSBV3021675; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:28:21 +0100 Received: (from aph@localhost) by redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i3TFSAIn021671; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:28:10 +0100 From: Andrew Haley MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <16529.7946.481687.868491@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:29:00 -0000 To: Thomas Cc: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Some issues.. In-Reply-To: <200404291517.22903.zander@javalobby.org> References: <788B535AB1F9CB49BB9C229372B50ACC0ADEA3@LEMBU.sumatrasoftware.com> <1082891420.27234.1377.camel@elsschot.wildebeest.org> <16528.59771.25101.572974@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <200404291517.22903.zander@javalobby.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-q2/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 Thomas writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 29 April 2004 13:39, Andrew Haley wrote: > > I don't see the problem, really.  If it doesn't run on some system, > > what is lost?  All that happens is a few test failures. > > 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.