release-candidate/0.6

[Austin Clements]

Nifty.  I was afraid to go romping through all of the other test
dependencies; I'm glad somebody wasn't.  ]:--8)

It should be noted that these patches depend on
id:1305206110-17511-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu for correctness
and id:1305206080-17461-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu for sanity.

Given that these patches aren't specifically 0.6-related and that it's
good practice to send patches to the list, perhaps you could git
send-email these patches as a new thread to the list?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 09:18:48 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
>> > The atomicity tests were failing here because I didn't have GDB
>> > installed, so I've added it as a prereq.
>>
>> Sorry, I've had a patch to address that sitting around, but hadn't
>> sent it out (and I only fixed that one test).  I would suggest a
>> somewhat gentler approach than "error", though:
>>
>> if test_expect_success "prereq: gdb is present" "which gdb"; then
>>     test_set_prereq GDB
>> fi
>>
>> (Plus the two test-lib patches I just sent:
>> id:1305206080-17461-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu and
>> id:1305206110-17511-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu).
>>
>> "error" has the disadvantage that it doesn't get counted as a failed
>> test in the final tally (because, indeed, it's not a failed test) and
>> also that it immediately terminates the test script so it's not
>> actually using the prereq system (which is fine for the atomicity test
>> since all of the test cases depend on GDB, but the pattern I'm
>> proposing works for finer-grained prerequisites).  Plus, with the
>> above approach, if you don't have a prerequisite, the final tally
>> shows one failed test plus some number of skipped tests (and the total
>> number of tests never changes), which I would argue is cleaner.
>
> Much obliged for the correction!
>
>
> Peace
>
>
> [0] git://github.com/praet/notmuch.git
>    for-review/test-prereqs-v2
>    c9a785fc5c48db13
>
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