[ros-dev] Re : Re : [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum to r56081

[Sylvain Petreolle]

I didn't say tests are useless(!), but critical.

Instead of having them in the regular checkout, build them as a separate project.
This will lower build/configure time, and leave it for OS, libraries, drivers and apps.

Kind regards,
Sylvain Petreolle


>  ________________________________
>  De : Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.maillists(a)gmail.com>
> À : 'ReactOS Development List' <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> 
> Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 16h29
> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum to r56081
>  
> >   We don't need to have useless files in tree.
> Useless files?
> They're arguably the most important files in the tree.
>
> Working on the codebase should be done directly with the tests for that area. The modules
> and tests are directly related and shouldn't be separated. It's like separating
> twins. Unfortunately, most people checkout trunk and not the tests, leaving testing to the
> build machines. 
>
> I'm guessing that people also write lots of test apps to test certain functionality of
> a particular area. These never get committed because there's nowhere to commit them,
> or lost if they do (remember the lena app we used for alphablending?)
> Having a ./tests folder will give people somewhere to drop this kind of thing and the
> chance to write bespoke tests outside of the winetest framework.
>
> Obviously the tests shouldn't be compiled under the basic build, instead have a flag
> in the root makefile so they can be compiled as desired.
> This would mean with the flag off everything would build as it does now.
> With the flag on, 'make' would build reactos + tests. 'make module' would
> build the module + its specific tests.
>
> The source for all tests comes to 24MB. It's not gonna flood your bandwidth or fill
> your hard disk.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Samuel
> Serapión
> Sent: 08 March 2012 14:35
> To: Sylvain Petreolle; ReactOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Re : [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum to r56081
>
> +1 for keeping rostests separate
> +1 for even more modularity
>
> also i wish we would use/exploit the svn externals feature whenever
> possible instead of importing 3rd party code into our repo
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle(a)yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > I fully agree with Timo.
> >   We don't need to have useless files in tree.
> > Remember we recently deleted stuff from the main tree for the same reasons :
> > space used and download time.
> >
> > We do need tests, they are critical, but not in every reactos checkout.
> > I am for making tests a complete separated project, which would lower build
> > times even more.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sylvain Petreolle
> >
> > ________________________________
> > De : Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de>
> > À : ReactOS Development List <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
> > Envoyé le : Jeudi 8 mars 2012 1h27
> > Objet : Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jgardou] 56082: [DAMN_IT] - addendum to
> > r56081
> >
> > Am I the only one against that?
> > Tests are tests, not reactos.
> > Why do I need to have another bazillion files in my source tree that I don't
> > need or want?
> > I have ONE checkout of rostests, but a dozen checkouts of reactos. For amd64
> > work I even disabled build of a lot of stuff that was pointless. Now even
> > more stuff spread thoughout the whole tree? Possibly even built by default?
> > Deleting a full reactos checkout is already slow enough. Also every commit
> > to rostetsts is a possible build breaker and can cause massive rebuilds.
> > Configure time will also increase.
> > I would rather prefer to make it even more modular, instead of mixing stuff
> > even more.
> >
> > -1
> >
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