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

[Ged Murphy]

>   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
>
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> 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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