Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable parallelized tests

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2008, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808081849250.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080808163341.GA20211@leksak.fem-net>

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Hm, another simple(?) solution could be to make the tests that try 
> > > to access the same port/directory/whatever depend on each other.
> > 
> > No.  Because then you cannot run them independently anymore.
> 
> Sorry, I meant, "depend on each other _in the Makefile_".
> 
> So "./t91xy-git-svn-foo.sh" will work independently, won't it? What does 
> not work independently is "make t91xy-git-svn-foo.sh" but is it that 
> bad?

I went out of my way to keep that functionality intact. But of course, we could throw it away. We could also throw Git away and go back to tarballs and patches.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: And I do not think it is clean to say that one test depends on the other. Because they do not. They depend on not being run concurrently. But that could be fixed.