Re: preparing for release 1.1
Markus Wanner <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel |
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Stephen, On 04/22/2014 04:45 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: > We have always had failing tests on Cygwin (I believe). Not enough > motivation to fix them. I already fixed all but one. And netsync_largish_file seems important enough to have a deeper look. > My past experience with buildbot slaves is that they are much more pain > than they are worth. Well, in my past experience, proper testing makes the difference between quality work and BS. So I use unit testing quite a lot. That being said, I agree that time spent to write tests vs actual code needs to maintain a reasonable balance. I've just disabled some tests that failed and which I think are beyond that balance to maintain. Another aspect of this is that shipping tests that fail give the user a bad impression. Therefore, I'm rather disabling a test that's hard to fix and of questionable value than shipping it, knowing it's failing. Regards Markus Wanner _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
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