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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:26, Eric Sandall wrote:
> <snip>
>> We could have a box (or boxes) dedicated to running prometheus on all
>> git commits against each spell modified. This, I think, would be a
>> better approach than modifying Sorcery to do so (IMO Sorcery is the
>> wrong tool for bug testing).
> 
> I really like this idea. We talked about something like this with Arwed 
> when 
> he visited Finland a few months ago. Instant feedback from Prometheus would 
> help harden our spells, as long as it wouldn't be used as an easy way to 
> avoid pre-commit testing (a valid concern).
> 

Most git commits are version bumps, which developers should be testing
anyway. So I'm not entirely sure how this would help. What would help
more is a dedicated machine, or vm, with a fresh install on it, so when
the spell is tested, it's against a clean install. This would ensure
that the same environment is used for all testing. Even a chroot would
probably work.

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