severity 48113 wishlist retitle 48113 Self-test timeout functionality thanks
Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> writes: > What do bug-automake people think? > > For myself, I have no objection to sprinkling timeout commands through > the Automake test infrastructure wherever appropriate. It's not ever > going to rise to the top of my own list of things to do, though, so if > it's going to happen, you or someone will have to write the patch. > > Of course I don't speak for Jim, but from what he's said in the past, > I suspect he is in a similar situation. Thanks for confirming that it isn't an obviously bad idea. Tagging this as a wishlist bug, and improving the bug title a bit. > No one else has come forward to work on Automake, despite my plea > (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html), > so I guess that's where we are. Ah right -- I'll see if I can help in any way, but will respond separately. > the functionality could be opt-in initially, > > Certainly. > > and then after a few years become the default behaviour. > > Personally, I think it should be opt-in forever. People could easily > have test suites that need to run for days. I prefer not to > unnecessarily break compatibility. Yes, I probably agree with this -- chosing the default timeout setting is difficult as it will most likely just cause problems for some people with long-running tests, and not solve the initial problem for some other people (that have small projects and a timeout of 5 minutes is what you want). Better leave this up the each project to decide. /Simon
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