From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: t5000-tar-tree.sh failing
Message-ID: <D8B2508E-D9EE-43F8-BAEE-BE7E5B446132@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061221185948.GA27072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>


On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote:

> 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