Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:26:11 -0700 (PDT) From: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression-test Message-ID: <515316.53908.qm@web32707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080619163501.GB12160@atarininja.org>
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--- Gio 19/6/08, Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto: ... >=20 > 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. >=20 Good reasons NOT to hide them are: - I don't have i386 or sparc64 platforms but the upstream maintainers frequ= ently want to know if there are issues to fix in those platforms. - When a real big package takes an hour or so to build, running a 5 min. te= st to validate it is really worth it. - When many ports depend on a single library, testing that library saves us= from difficult-to-find bugs in all the ports that depend on it. Pedro. =0A=0A=0A ___________________________________ =0AScopri il Blog di Yah= oo! Mail: trucchi, novit=E0, consigli... e la tua opinione!=0Ahttp://www.ym= ailblogit.com/blog/
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