[darcs-devel] automate running the tests

Benjamin Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Thu Sep 26 18:28:58 UTC 2019


[replying to the list as this is off-topic]

Am 26.09.19 um 19:33 schrieb Ganesh Sittampalam:
> Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:
>> I meant on the server as an apply posthook, so we reject applying it in
>> case someone (like me) one day forgets to run them or gets confused and
>> thinks they ran them when in fact they didn't. But this means the push
>> will hang for several minutes while the tests are running.
> 
> My feeling is that it'd be more pain than it's worth, particularly as
> I've seen at least one test (issue1465_ortryrunning) fail occasionally
> even on Linux. But I don't mind if you want to give it a go.

Okay, good to know. I am not too keen to fiddle with our old server, so
don't hold your breath.

The issue1465_ortryrunning never failed for me, probably don't have
enough cores. The issue and the test are perhaps worth giving them some
more thought.



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