CI seems to have regressed?

[Manu]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 20:36, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole via
Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 10/03/2025 11:11 PM, Manu wrote:
> > Has anyone poked at this? Are there known inhibitors?
>
> A lot of the tests have switches applied to them.
>

Yup, I saw that. They need to be batched by switch group I guess...

They are not as simple as it initially appears.
>
> Also each test may have a main function.
>

Obviously that design doesn't scale.
Maybe put a compiler hack which takes multiple main() functions from
separate modules and queues them to run sequentially... that's probably
easier than re-engineering thousands of test files?


> I'm sure there are some low hanging fruit, and a new test runner may be
> able to take advantage of that. But I suspect that this isn't an easy task.


This appears to be a whole new test runner already? It doesn't look
familiar at all to me since last time I was pushing to DMD. (like ~2020?)

But yeah, nar, it clearly needs some work. I reckon it's literally a
maximum priority issue; I can say that I'm not motivated to commit to DMD
like this. 'ain't no one got time for that! Am I the only one, or is it
repellant to other potential contributors?
I mean, like, you can't meaningfully focus on the work you're doing,
because you make a tweak and then twiddle your thumbs for way too long to
find out if you made a mistake... I've long since moved on to doing
something else in that timeframe.
Like, Nick asked me to add back-ticks to a comment... an hour later, he's
long gone off and doing something else... as you would expect!
We could build and run Overwatch tests in a quarter of the time (an
enormous project!), and I thought that was bad then! :P ... maybe DLF have
resources to direct at this, and/or I wonder if it's an obvious GSOC
project?
If it were my project, I would treat any resources directed to this as an
investment.
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