[cffi-devel] [cl-test-grid] Re: how to treat expected failures in tests

[Robert Goldman]

There is trivial-backtrace, I believe, if one is willing to include
that in the CL-test-grid. Possibly a "smaller" include than swank.

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On Mar 13, 2012, at 19:30, "Luís Oliveira" <luismbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> They would of course.. but there is no portable way to retrieve a backtrace of CL condition.
>
> swank should provide a portable way to do that.
>
>
>> Gnu make is often installed with cygwin (but not so many people install cygwin).
>> E iMicrosoft Visual Studio ships with a program called nmake - mostly compatible
>> with make, but not completely. Again, not everyone have Visual Studio. Actually,
>> make is not that necessary, it's just one C file we need to compile, the compile.bat
>> from the tests directory is OK (but anyway requires Microsoft Visual C compiler).
>>
>> In short, even if we implement the compile-op for windows, it is going to fail for 85% of users.
>>
>> I think it's OK to ask user to compile the library manually.
>
> Sure, but it's not suitable for a buildbot or something along those
> lines. I assume that at some point test results for cl-test-grid will
> be provided by automated runs?
>
> I've registered this issue in the bug tracker...
>
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> Luís Oliveira
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