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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

Maybe the addfitional output could be skipped if ctest is run without -j ?

Alex