Re: 64-bit SGI account offer

On November 1, 2002 10:26 am, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > At 16:10 1-11-2002, Sebastian Nohn wrote: > >Disagree. It's just a verification. You can also more easy see when > >something broke on a certain machine with a certain configuration. This > >evening im going to take a look at the make-tests.php > > +1 on SKIP+FAIL > PASS = PASS - don't bother. Skipped test represent a huge amount of data, for most people this may range between 100-150 tests, even on my system with nearly all modules enabled I have 70 or so tests being skipped. As useful as it is, it is just too much data to not only send, but also to 'parse' by a human eye. Ilia > Reason for SKIP: > if test A SKIP's because of condition 'foo', but test B fails because of > condition 'foo', test B is flawed. > > > > > The user should have the option to decide via a config-file to write > > > > the xml to disk or to directly submit it to the webserver. > > > > > > Why involve XML into this? We already have a facility to submit > > > test via a > > > POST request to the QA team and if that fails, the results are > > > written to a > > > plain text file a user can read and if they want email manually to QA. > > > >But it's unreadable. I don't have the time and the pleasure to compare 9 > >result-logs. It would be much easier to compare this via an web interface. > >XML (or especially WDDX) could easily be used to send the results to a > >website, store and in a database and write a interface to this database. > >This has already be done (see ÙÈ¡ÅÄp > >¨ÍÆ`¾ÇäÈhttp://php.nohn.net/autotest-stats.php ) for > >an example. > > A common separator should be all that's needed. > Depending on packages like WDDX or XML, means they should be working. If > you emulate these extensions with regexes or string functions, you depend > on these two to be working. Let's keep the output parseable, but depending > on as less functions as needed. > > Currently ./configure --disable-all ; make all test > > already doesn't work, because of preg_* functions. > > > > Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, > > Webmaster IDG.nl > Melvyn Sopacua