A testcase library

[Volker Reichelt]

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