[Mono-devel-list] On "no regression policy"

[Yaacov Akiba Slama]

Hello,

So the situation is :
1) Everyone wants these tests to be run as often as possible;
2) These tests need big files that cannot be packaged in mono-*.tar.gz;
3) The abilty to be offline when running these tests is important;
4) Massive downloads each time the tests are run are not acceptable.

What do you think about having :
1) A simple shell script whose goal is to download the necessary package
(from oasis and w3c and others if needed).
2) two targets : run-tests an run-partial-tests
a) run-tests will require the full test packages. If the packages are
not there, it will print an error message and instructions on how to
download them using the shell script described in 1.
b) run-partial-tests will not require any external package but will
print a big warning recommending loudely to use the target run-tests
before comitting any modifications.

Thanks,

--yas

Atsushi Eno wrote:

> That's even worse. We don't want to ship it in our mono-*.tar.gz.
>
> Atsushi Eno
>
> Yaacov Akiba Slama wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The testsuite from w3c is "only" 675KB if packaged as a tar.bz2 (instead
>> of 1.5 MB for the zip).
>>
>> A solution would be to add the tar.bz2 to the source tree.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>>
>> --yas
>>
>> Atsushi Eno wrote:
>>
>>
>>> No massive download for everyone who just want to test sys.xml.
>>>
>>> Atsushi Eno
>>>
>>> Andrew Skiba wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Atsushi Eno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The core of what I really dislike about the proposal is that
>>>>> it is said as "policy". If it is something like "guideline",
>>>>> and replacing "must" with "should", "forbidden" with
>>>>> "discouraged" or "not recommended", then yes it would be OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you agree with me, then you don't have to read it anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let's make things simple - I want to run the W3C testsuite when one
>>>> makes "make run-test" from the class/System.XML dir.
>>>>
>>>> Is it OK for you and Ben?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew.
>>>>
>>>
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