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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Robert Collins
> <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If local parallelisation will work, testr run --parallel will load
>> balance all the tests optimally based on previous performance - a
>> single run from e.g. ec2 can tell us which tests are slow and let it
>> decide from there.
>
> Cool.  I wasn't aware it had that functionality.

:) testr has lots of goodness

>> bin/test --parallel already exists and does better splitting than -j,
>> so I disagree that -j would be the best approach, *if* the collisions
>> etc are easy to fix :).
>
> Indeed.  I had forgotten about --parallel.  If it hasn't already been
> added to zope.testrunner, it sounds like a good candidate to replace -j.

I'd rather remove -j and --parallel entirely I think these days, and
just recommend testr. Dunno how that would fly upstream.

-Rob