From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 13 16:55:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from relay05.netaddress.usa.net (relay05.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A117615320 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 16:55:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 3940 invoked from network); 13 May 1999 23:55:27 -0000 Received: from www0g.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.24.36) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 13 May 1999 23:55:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 25448 invoked by uid 60001); 13 May 1999 23:55:27 -0000 Message-ID: <19990513235527.25447.qmail@www0g.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.36 by www0g via web-mailer(M3.0.0.118) on Thu May 13 23:55:27 GMT 1999 Date: 13 May 99 16:55:27 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Thomas David Rivers , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jesus.monroy@usa.net Subject: Re: [Re: BUDS Coming to you soon.] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.0.0.118) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > o........ Deep Recursion Testing[1] > = > I believe you mean Regression testing here. At least, the > description you provided fits the definition of Regression testing. > = I guess so. As many people know, my english is not always what it should be. :-) > > o........ Permuntation Compilation of the GENERIC Kernel[2] > = > = > Uh.. I believe you mean "Permutation", right? > = Yes, I thought I check the spelling.... = > But, if you simply count the number of options, devices and > controllers in the LINT config on 3.1 you get 313. Let's simplify > this and pretend they are all either yes-or-no options. > = > That makes for a *lot* (2 to the 313) of different kernels which will = > take quite some time to compile... (longer than your lifetime?) > = > Perhaps a more realistic testing paradigm should be employed? > = I'm open to suggestions. But I think I will have = normal lifetime. :-) > Also, I suggest that -hackers isn't appropriate for this... > = Why not? I'm open to their suggestions, discussions and hacks. :-) --- IN that context, it is the BSD that should be considered, not the prefix. http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/cgi-bin/newsread?34858 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message