[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 551

Benjamin Shropshire benjamin at precisionsoftware.us
Sun Jun 20 06:35:08 PDT 2010


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?

Having it be part of the dmd repo makes it much more likely that people 
who work on the source will run the test suite. This will result in 
better patches.

> That way other people can get access rights

SVN is able to give different rights to different directories in the 
same repo

> 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.

It took me 2 seconds to read the original post. It would be even less 
time if the first line of the message was tacked in the subject.



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