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Re: t5000-tar-tree.sh failing

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Dec 21, 2006, 23:37 UTC
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On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote:
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> I'm not sure if (in this case) a missing unzip should be as silent as
> you suggest.  The danger is, that s.o. makes a change, runs `make  
> test`
> and is then conviced that nothing broke.  So I think that the test
> should fail, but with a more descriptive error than it is now.
>
> The downside is, you need unzip, svn, what ever more to run the test
> suite.

I was attempting to say that if we're skipping tests we should say so, and not just drop them silently like the code that Johannes posted. Really, I guess the ideal would be for there to be a test harness that would run all the tests and report skips and errors in a report at the end rather than in the middle.

~~ Brian
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  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigDec 21, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 21, 2006
  3. Brian GernhardtDec 21, 2006
  4. Uwe Kleine-KoenigDec 21, 2006
  5. Brian GernhardtDec 21, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2006

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