Re: Repository layout

On 06/01/2012 03:58 PM, Linss, Peter wrote:

> There's a fundamental problem here, while I understand that most of
> the suites don't (yet) use a build step, and many won't need one (or
> may not be able to use one), there are some test suites where a build
> step is _mandatory_, like the CSS suites. And that's not going to
> change, if anything we're getting more dependent on the build process
> over time.
>
> If you can't incorporate a build step into your workflow, then there
> are a _lot_ of tests that will be unavailable to you, like around
> 11,000 CSS tests (and that number is growing rapidly). (Actually if
> you consider each format the tests are available in, that's more like
> 33,000 tests.)

We *can* incorporate that step of course, but we would *much prefer* not 
to. It makes updating the tests a significantly more complex undertaking 
than it would otherwise be. This means we are less likely to run an 
up-to-date copy of the tests and as a result interoperability will suffer.

Received on Friday, 1 June 2012 14:04:44 UTC