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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:06:18PM -0800, Johan Hake wrote:
> >> On Thursday February 3 2011 16:02:32 Anders Logg wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:57:30PM -0800, Johan Hake wrote:
> >> > > On Thursday February 3 2011 15:46:33 Anders Logg wrote:
> >> > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:57:36PM +0100, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
> >> > > > > On 3. feb. 2011, at 22:21, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > > > > [\snip]
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Any thoughts?
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > How about some or all of these:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > 1. Not introducing separate developer branches
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Too late. ;-)
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > 2. Establishing a subset of tests that take a few minutes to run, so
> >> > > > > that we actually bother to run a set of tests before pushing to the
> >> > > > > main branch
> >> > > >
> >> > > > That would be useful, but it's probably difficult to design such a
> >> > > > test. Perhaps it would be one single main.cpp that does a whole lot of
> >> > > > things.
> >> > >
> >> > > We have the unit tests. They should always be run before committing
> >> > > stuff. We could definitely increase the number of unit tests and the
> >> > > scope of them.
> >> >
> >> > The problem is it takes time to (re)-build the tests. With just one
> >> > executable, we would have something that is quick enough that one
> >> > would always try it. (Not that I'm insisting that we must add this.)
> >>
> >>   python test.py --only-python
> >>
> >> works for me ;)
> >
> > I had forgotten about that. Yes, that's useful!
> >
> > Maybe we could add a make target for that? So one can stand in the
> > build directory and type
> >
> >  make quicktest
>
> We already have several targets for running tests, try "make run<tab>"
> in build directory. I have added a target run_quicktest now.

I didn't know. Great!

--
Anders