Re: Mauve patches.

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

David Lichteblau writes:
 > 
 > BTW, to ask a technical question, is the "tagging" of Mauve testcases
 > used in practice?

Yes, it is.

 > Much of the complexity of the existing build systems stems from the
 > fact that tests are selected by a non-trivial script.  If not for
 > the tags, something like "find . -name \*.java" would be enough to
 > select all files.

Well, sooner or later we'll be working with 1.5 (Java++?  :-) and at that
point it'll be pretty useful.  So let's keep it, please.

 > Unless I misunderstood Thomas' question, he could not compile all
 > of Mauve because his script tried to compile _everything_, as
 > opposed to those files usually chosen by the standard build system.
 > I would find it a little confusing if Mauve provided two build
 > systems, one which uses tags and one which does not.

Yes.  I suppose Thomas' Ant script should do the right thing with
respect to the tags.

Andrew.