Re: t5000-tar-tree.sh failing

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 22, 2006, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612220345530.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061221185948.GA27072@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, 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.

Well, the tests are not distributed with the binary packages. For a reason. The maintainer of the binary packages has to check if the tests succeed. An she better know what she's doing!

So, if Joe Average compiles git, does not have unzip installed, and runs the tests, chances are that he does not want to be bothered about the zip tests failing because of the absence of unzip.

>  So I think that the test should fail, but with a more descriptive error 
> than it is now.

Sorry. Does not work here. I _only_ look at the messages if the test suite fails somewhere, with a loud error message at the end.

Ciao, Dscho