Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:54:17 -0700 (PDT) From: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test Message-ID: <676047.76296.qm@web32706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote: ... > In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered > appropriate? E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running > the tests sixteen, which I suspect would be excessive. FWIW, I started adding those regression-test targets to many ports because = they are extremely useful: while trying to update to the latest coreutils I= found everything apparently built but everything was actually broken. Now = I am finding bugs in some ports that I thought were fine. It's good to use it for (short) things that actually test functionality. Us= ing it for benchmarks is really NOT a good idea: it takes a lot of time and= also the results from the build cluster can vary hugely to make them of an= y value. Pedro.=0A=0A=0A ___________________________________ =0AScopri il Blog = di Yahoo! Mail: trucchi, novit=E0, consigli... e la tua opinione!=0Ahttp://= www.ymailblogit.com/blog/
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