Re: Installed tests - parallel installability

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 02:17:19PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the installed tests [1] of libraries are not parallel
> > installable.
> >
> > For example the GTK+ tests are installed in:
> > .../installed-tests/gtk+/
> >
> > When GTK+ 4 will be released, it would be nice to still run the GTK+ 3
> > tests. Especially because GTK+ 3 will be advertised as more stable. But
> > I guess this is true for any library (except when security holes are not
> > fixed in old versions).
> >
> > So for GTK+ 3, the tests should probably be installed in:
> > .../installed-tests/gtk+-3.0/
> >
> > No?
>
> I would suggest to leave out the + as we do in other filesystem
> locations: /usr/share/gtk-3.0, /etc/gtk-3.0. Other than that, no
> objections, seems like a good idea to me.

Ok, gnome goal adapted:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/InstalledTests

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Sébastien