[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add "unofficial" FATE tests

[Måns Rullgård]

Vitor Sessak <vitor1001 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 07/09/2010 01:14 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Vitor Sessak<vitor1001 at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> On 07/09/2010 12:51 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>>> Vitor Sessak<vitor1001 at gmail.com>   writes:
>>>>
>>>>> The attached patch add support for adding to "make fate" new tests
>>>>> that are not yet integrated in Mike's database. It add two new targets:
>>>>>
>>>>> - "make fate1" does all the tests in Mike's database
>>>>> - "make fate2" does all the tests described in tests/fate2.mak
>>>>> - "make fate" is an alias for "make fate1 fate2"
>>>>
>>>> Do we really need to split it like that?
>>>
>>> This way Mike can add a FATE test that runs "make fate2" in the same
>>> way he has one that runs "make test".
>>
>> That's a bad idea.  We don't want to lump lots of tests together like
>> that.
>
> Both "make fate" and "make test" lump lots of tests together today, no?

That's a convenience for manual use only.  Running the bulk tests as a
single FATE item is bad.  FATE does that with "make test" for
historical reasons only.  It would be easy to split it now.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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