Broken unittests

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2010, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > > Well this is the same problem with the xcf actually. The error is of 1. I
> > > am  not sure whether it is acceptable or not. I am also unsure where it
> > > comes from. Both tests pass on branch/2.2.
> > 
> > Hrm. This sounds pretty serious to me. It would mean that at some point we
> > have started displaying our own files differently as well.
> Yes.
> 
> It is quiet possible that the commit that triggered it is:
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> r1118243 | berger | 2010-04-24 08:02:19 +0200 (Sat, 24 Apr 2010) | 2 lines
> 
> use the IntegerMath functions for a major speed improvement
> 
> 
> I will try to investigate this evening.

That would be wonderful!

> > > (on a side note, I would prefer if the 
> > > test are not marked as EXPECT_FAIL, it is the best way to forget about
> > > them  alltogether...)
> > 
> > I sort of agree -- but on the other hand, many tests have ten or so
> > subtests, and if one of them fails, people don't notice when more start
> > failing.
> It is a good point, maybe we should list the EXPECT_FAIL on the wiki ?

Ok. Maybe we should integrate action plan 3 with a release readiness list to have all info in one place, and the expect_fails can go there as well.
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