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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:04:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com>
To:        Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-toolkits/eel2/files patch-Makefile.in
Message-ID:  <200206140504.g5E54iv6048802@corbulon.video-collage.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020614032524.GC3248@cavia.pp.ru>

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> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:04:25PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > 
> > 	- testing before using is good, but, usually, tedious;
> > 	- automated tests ease the tediousness (tediousity?);
> > 	- hence: use automated testing whenever possible!
> > 
> 
> Mikhail, ports are intended to facilitate the building process of
> existing software, not to trigger bugs in it. If you want to run
> tests, run them manually and do not force everybody to do the same.

Actually, trying to trigger bugs *IS* part of the building process.
Or, at least, it should be...

I don't want to force everybody to run the tests manually -- my whole
point is to make the available tests run automaticly -- for everybody.
Any bugs, the author anticipated might be there, will show up before
install...

	-mi

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