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

[Vitor Sessak]

On 07/09/2010 01:34 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 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.

Now I see what you are talking about. Ideally, tests should not live in 
"make test2" for long, just until they get their own test spec and go to 
the main "make fate".

-Vitor