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

[Luís Oliveira]

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).
> Microsoft 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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