[darcs-users] patch: add makefile target named "disttest" which does the test currently written in _darcs/prefs/prefs

[Eric Y. Kow]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 17:55:03 -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> The maintainers can certainly use different settings for the test, but
> I don't think there's a test that's much faster that will really help
> significantly--except that we could skip the unit tests, which involve
> code that is almost never touched.  In fact, with some work, we could
> potentially only rerun the unit tests when code that affects them is
> modified.  That could save a lot of time--but would be hard to code.

I realise this may be a bit extreme, but maybe we could do away with the
testpref altogether and just ask people to use a send prehook?

That puts extra burden on us to test, but we're running the suite
anyway.

No strong feelings on this.  I think my hope was just to lower the
barrier to entry for one-off contributors who may be suprised by the
test suite being run.  "I just wanted to fix a typo!" or in Zooko's
case, "make a ChangeLog entry!" (Zooko was not aware of --no-test, and I
think the same may be true for many potential contributors)

-- 
Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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