[svn:parrot] r35909 - trunk/config/gen/makefiles

[Will Coleda]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, jerry gay <jerry.gay at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 20:23, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jonathan Worthington
>> <jonathan at jnthn.net> wrote:
>>> Will Coleda wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why we can't just run this test via t/harness?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's exactly what the patch does:
>>>
>>>>> +       $(PERL) t/harness $(EXTRA_TEST_ARGS) -r t/op/annotate.t
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Or am I missing the point? But just feel free, to commit whatever better way
>>> you want - the aim is just to run this test also in
>>> compile-to-bytecode-first mode on make test, as well as in the normal "just
>>> run it" way.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, so the -r makes it hard to run as part of the single invocation of
>> t/harness that we do with 'make test'
>>
>> Why do we have to run this one test with -r when we run 'make test'?
>> Why not catch it with 'make testr' which is run as part of 'make
>> fulltest'?
>>
> because nobody runs make fulltest. the smokers don't. the users don't.
> the developers don't. only the release manager does, once or twice
> before a release. i'm not saying that's good, that's just the way it
> is.
>
> ~jerry
>

What makes /this test/ so important we have to run it here?

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda