[darcs-devel] [patch1378] run network tests by default

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:

I'm not too sure what I think about this.

In general it seems like a reasonable idea to improve our coverage.

In practice I mostly run the tests when I have an unreliable or 
unavailable network connection, so either I'll end up having to 
reorganise my working practices a bit, or I'll continue not running 
these tests even if other people are doing so by default.

In principle tests that depend on external data are a bad idea because 
that data might change and destablise the tests, though I think these 
tests just rely on there being a repo at http://darcs.net which ought to 
be pretty stable.

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status: needs-screening -> in-discussion

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