On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:26:13 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Mar 23, 2011, at 02:52 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Then many people will start running the "smoke test" rather than the whole suite, which will create new kinds of problems. It's IMO a bad idea. Let Barry learn about "-j" :)
Well, that's a social problem, not a technical problem.
Isn't this whole thread about a social problem? You are complaining that the test suite is too slow, which *is* a social problem (the buildbots (mostly) don't care about runtime, for example). If we start promoting a "quicker" way of running tests, then nobody will use the normal way. I'm sorry, I'm -1 on that. There are regressions often enough on the buildbots. If you insist on that, I suggest that you also vow to take care of the buildbot fleet and individually track regressions and notify people who are responsible for them. Regards Antoine.