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Re: A testcase library
- From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu
- Cc: ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr, jakub at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, janis187 at us dot ibm dot com, ehrhardt at mathematik dot uni-ulm dot de
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:13:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: A testcase library
On 20 Dec, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>
>> > But that doesn't keep us from doing something similar in a different
>> > location. I had some discussion over the topic in private mail with
>> > Wolfgang and we decided to wait for Bugzilla before setting up something
>> > new. But maybe there are better suggestions?
>>
>> Why not a special directory in the testsuite that is not tested by the
>> toplevel 'make check' but by a magic-like command invoked only by
>> those-who-know ? It would not be included in the official tarballs.
>
> That was my original thought. It would allow us to get the presently
> smallest testcase to check for something, and if we can further reduce it,
> we could check in the new testcase as well. It would also allow potentail
> bug fixers simpler access to the testcases.
>
> On the other hand, the list of people with CVS write privileges would have
> to be expanded.
We'd probably also want a looser check-in policy for the problem
reports.
Regards,
Volker