Fwd: [CMake] CMake 2.8.0 RC 4 ready for testing!

[David Faure]

On Monday 02 November 2009, Brad King wrote:
> > Just one cosmetic remark: why does the output of `make test` now look
> > like this?
> >
> >       Start  1: klocaletest
> >  1/46 Test  #1: klocaletest ......................   Passed    0.08 sec
> >       Start  2: klocalizedstringtest
> >  2/46 Test  #2: klocalizedstringtest .............   Passed    0.03 sec
> >       Start  3: kstandarddirstest
> >  3/46 Test  #3: kstandarddirstest ................   Passed    0.09 sec
> >       Start  4: kaboutdatatest
> >  4/46 Test  #4: kaboutdatatest ...................   Passed    0.02 sec
> >       Start  5: kurltest
> >  5/46 Test  #5: kurltest .........................***Failed    0.03 sec
> > [...]
> >
> > I think this makes it harder to read (twice longer, with one line out of
> > two saying nothing really interesting; the "Start N: footest" line seems
> > useless).
> 
> This is because we now support parallel testing: ctest -j 8

Oh wow, that rocks.
OK, the benefits clearly outweight the formatting change.

I agree with your escape-codes-in-tty longer term solution; right now
if a test hangs, it's impossible to determine which one, in ctest -j mode.


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