[squeak-dev] Re: Squeak-dev Digest, Vol 67, Issue 20

Ken G. Brown kbrown at mac.com
Sun Jul 6 19:24:54 UTC 2008


At 11:28 AM -0700 7/6/08, squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote:
>Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:28:45 +0200
>From: "Damien Cassou" <damien.cassou at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Different squeak-dev flavors 2
>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
>	<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
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>	<6ac749c10807060728w6b8d1d87n3dad99920a6e0cfe at mail.gmail.com>
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>On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>> At 5:00 AM -0700 7/6/08, squeak-dev-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote:
>>>Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:14:23 +0200
>>>From: "Damien Cassou" <damien.cassou at gmail.com>
>>>Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Different squeak-dev flavors 2
>>>To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
> >>       <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
><snip>
> >
>> I'd like to have confidence that everything added to 3.10.2 also includes tests for everything added, and that all tests run unattended and everything ends green.
>> For starters, on Mac 10.5.4, fresh sq3.10.2-7179dev08.07.1 on Squeak 3.8.18beta1U.app vm, pull out the Test Runner, select all standard tests, start to run 2788 tests,  and with manual intervention required several times, it only gets to 394 run, 374 passes, 2 expected failures, 5 failures 13 error, before it quits processing.
>>
>> I think that the dev images should ship with all tests running green.
>
>
>I think these problems must be fixed by the release teams and by the
>package maintainer. As an integretor, I can't do more than you on
>these fields. The only thing I can do is to base the images on the
>latest versions.
>
>--
>Damien Cassou
>Peter von der AhÈ: ´I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
>luckª. (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)

I'm suggesting that anything pre-loaded by you into the dev images, come with tests and all tests be green for the release dev image.
Other stuff can however be showcased by listing in the dev image and be easy to load, but not be pre-loaded if they cause any tests to fail.

Ken G. Brown



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