Re: [Denemo-devel] Master is badly broken

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 13:20 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> What I meant is a denemo configuration directory included in the test
> suite (i.e. as a subdirectory in the tests directory) with standardised
> values.

hmm, yes, if a user wants to run the tests then having the .denemo-xxx
location fixed at the user's home directory is a problem.
I think your first suggestion of a command line flag to choose where to
find .denemo-xxx might be good - I have used a separate, clean, user for
this, but it sounds like you need to run the tests as part of your
install process, so that they have to be run as your own user. I wonder
what other projects do?

Richard

>  Using the user's configuration brings in a random component. For
> example, when I build a package for Denemo (using fakeroot), the success
> of the thumbnailer test depends on which file I had been previously
> working on (in the production environment).
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> Am 25.06.2014 12:59, schrieb Richard Shann:
> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:21 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> >> Is it possible to set the location of the .denemo-xxx directory with a
> >> command line switch?
> > There is none at present AFAIK
> >> I suppose it would be good to include a fixed
> >> configuration (i.e. a fixed .denemo-xxx directory) in the test suite.
> > 
> > It is at a fixed location relative to the user's home directory. The
> > only problem that I can imagine would be if the test suite is run by a
> > user who has no home directory (or not one that the user has permissions
> > to read and write to). I'm guessing that Eloi's test system as run by
> > travis does not have that problem...
> > 
> > Richard
> 
> 
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