Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:07:15PM CET:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
This is a patch that I don't know whether I want it or not.
Package authors may be interested in SKIPs and why they happen, or
not.
(Could also be solved with leaving the choice to the package author
and/or user, by some TEST_RECORD_SKIPS variable or so).
Comments appreciated.
Yes, please.
Once I taught coreutils' "make check" to tell why a test is skipped,
I discovered a few that should not have been skipped.
Seeing a summary (and remembering the numbers) might help too.
Yes, I agree. The thing is, though, that there may be an abundance of
SKIPs; all of which are hopefully not very interesting. For example,
the Automake testsuite itself can easily skip a good part of its tests
when on an unusual host (that in itself is probably a bad thing, but
that's for another thread ...).
The question is whether there should be a toggle to enable or disable
logging SKIPs, or they should always be logged, and if a toggle, what
color that bikeshed^Wtoggle should have.
I take that back. User API questions are never really bike shedding.