From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14387 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2005 22:23:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 14364 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2005 22:23:34 -0000 Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:23:34 +0000 Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p65-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.65]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21C95F53FE; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:23:30 +1200 (NZST) Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id E5AD762A99; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:25:48 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17128.2540.73355.406922@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:23:00 -0000 To: Mark Kettenis Cc: drow@false.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: tests for MI commands In-Reply-To: <200507272103.j6RL3HYf022581@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> References: <17117.55351.716393.763492@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050724211946.GB798@nevyn.them.org> <17126.51233.887175.402254@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050727002721.GA27261@nevyn.them.org> <17126.62115.642102.742744@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <20050727035503.GA30670@nevyn.them.org> <17127.29797.456624.592127@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200507272103.j6RL3HYf022581@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00214.txt.bz2 > Given the scarce resources for this unpaid work I ask you again to > consider removing the mi2-*.exp files and just test the current version > of MI. The reality is that they serve no useful purpose (mi-*.exp tests > would still pass if GDB was invoked with "-i=mi2") and they require > effort that could be better spent on other things. > > We can discuss this *after* you either: > a) Fixed the test failures. > > b) Backed out your patch. I'd like to do a) by removing the mi2-*.exp files ;-). There doesn't seem much point in making a load of changes if we are going to just remove the files afterwards. > You promised not to do this again, and yet you did. Let's remember that the testsuite is there to prevent regressions in GDB and not as an end in itself. Presumably the focus should be on having the right tests in the suite and not just on ensuring that everything passes. Nick