Re: Proposal: GLib tests.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de> writes:

> Hi, all
> 
> Two proposals:
> 
> 1. Either when doing "make" or "make install", the Makefile should also
>    do a "make check". Otherwise there might exist GLib installations
>    somewhere out there, that just dont work.

 - This slows down building.
 - I don't know any other packages that automatically do tests
   (including some with very complete test suites, such as Perl or gcc)
 - We'd have to make the g_log tests say:

   HEY! DON'T SUBMIT A BUG REPORT ABOUT THE FOLLOWING!

But in general, I don't think it is necessary. It's not like it is
typical for GLib to be broken in subtle ways.
 
> 2. Remove testglib.c and testgdate.c (already covered by tests/*) and
>    convert testgdateparser.c and gmodule/gtestmodule.c to
>    tests/date-parser-test.c and tests/module-test.c resp. (I would do
>    that, if there is some consensus)

I have no particular feelings about this one way or the other.

Regards,
                                        Owen