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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey John,

I don't think there is any disadvantage to rolling the other tests into
the qa test executable.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 1/19/19 10:25 AM, John Beard wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I'll rebase the patch. Would you like me to roll the other
> common-library QA utility classes (io_benchmark, etc) up into this
> executable as a follow-up?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 2:58 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> John,
>>
>> The original patch no longer applies cleanly.  It looks useful so I
>> don't see any reason not to merge it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 1/19/2019 9:30 AM, John Beard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A very gentle bump here. I'm thinking about a utility to assist in
>>> debugging/benchmarking/testing/developing DRC routines (currently
>>> working on some DRC unit testing, but the testing utils are easily
>>> re-used into a small utility-style executable).
>>>
>>> However, I am cognisant of the costs of adding things like this,
>>> especially with such large link times and RAM usage of things that
>>> suck in the pcbnew object library. So I'd like to know if:
>>>
>>> 1) These kinds of utilities are wanted at all, or are they adding
>>> maintenance overhead for tools no-one ever uses? I'd understand that
>>> perspective, as I appreciate developer time is highly limited and
>>> cross-platform breakage is so easy to perpetrate.
>>> 2) If wanted, is a "merged" approach appreciated, or keep them
>>> separate, in the hopes of once day having shared libs and much reduced
>>> link time/effort?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
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