Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:47:02 +0100 From: Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test Message-ID: <20080619164702.GA22382@eborcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20080619163501.GB12160@atarininja.org> References: <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080619163501.GB12160@atarininja.org>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:35:01PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote: > Which is why I would recommend wrapping them in checks for > MAINTAINER_MODE or something similar. This way you, as the maintainer, > can turn them on when you want but they don't affect anything else. That's true for the OS versions and architectures that a maintainer builds on. I'm very fond of CPAN's culture of build, test then install for all modules. Sure, it takes time, but it's helped me find problems on machines I use that others, including the author, haven't encountered. I didn't know Ports had such options until this thread: I'm tempted to enable regression tests whenever I build ports to benefit from the extra sanity checking that tests provide. Restricting such tests to maintainer mode only eliminates these benefits and risks devaluing MAINTAINER_MODE if non-maintainers set this variable to benefit from automated testing. Tom
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