kdelibs (at least) : test building by default

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 13:25:17 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > Yes. Now that users are supposed to compile KDE4, we don't want them to
> > > waste time on unit test compilation.
> >
> > Every user is a potential contributor, though ;)
>
> Yep, and its an excellent way to scare him away by lengthening the build
> process even more. I probably have too old hardware, but it takes me more
> than 24 hours to build trunk, which is no fun at all.

How about requiring "no regressions in unit tests" for patches to be 
submitted? That makes sense to me at this point. Just enabling unit tests in 
the build doesn't solve any problem (other than the barrier is then lowered 
to actually *run* them and consider the results).
-- 
sebas

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