[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 551

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Tue Jun 22 10:54:51 PDT 2010


On 20/06/10 20:32, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 6/20/2010 4:51 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> On 20/06/10 11:22, dsource.org wrote:
>>> dmd commit, revision 551
>>>
>>>
>>> user: braddr
>>>
>>> msg:
>>> another group of tests
>>>
>>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/551
>>
>> Shouldn't these tests really be moved to a separate repository? dmd-test
>> or something? That way other people can get access rights and it doesn't
>> clutter up my RSS feed with commits I couldn't care less about... I
>> subscribed to the dmd feed not the dmd test quite feed. While it's nice
>> that there's now an official public test suite (long overdue I might
>> add), I'd rather not have to spend my time reading through the commits
>> for it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>
> I completely disagree (which is probably obvious because I put them where
I did
> on purpose).  The tests for the app belong with the app.
>
> Once the tests are populated from the existing tests, the submits will
have more
> relevance because they'll be coupled with code changes.  Thus it'll
actually be
> even easier to tell what a code change is about.
>
> Later,
> Brad

This is what svn imports are for -
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re12.html . The tests can stay in a
separate repo, but are automatically included when you check out dmd.

PS: Sorry if this came out as a top post, someone has made gmane
unidirectional, so I have no idea how to use the mailing lists properly now
:3

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
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