Hi Robert,
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:30 AM Robert Coup
wrote:
> ...
>
> GDAL has some odd test layouts with particular inter-test dependencies
> from when the test suite was bulk-ported via automation to work under
> pytest — this made it a lot saner, but some of the "test 18 depends on test
> 17
Greg,
I see that now. I expected to be able to read the README in autotest
and understand the big view of testing. It feels like autotest is sort
of a separable part of gdal not being in the tarball.
People who build GDAL from sources in scripts (Docker images etc) just
need the sources. So a
Robert Coup writes:
Thanks for taking the time to respond to me. It's becoming a lot clearer.
I should be clear that these issues are of course minor and mostly doc
issues and are not meant to be about whether the RC before us is
suitable.
>> * autotest is not in the distribution tarball
>
>
Hi Greg,
On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 01:33, Greg Troxel wrote:
> A few comments from the perspective of a gdal test newbie, which I hope
> are helpful:
>
> * autotest is not in the distribution tarball
>
Yeah, it's never been in the release tarballs. And the release tarballs
start one folder level d
After a very long time of not running the tests, because I thought it
was harder than it is, I have started down that path. (Thanks to Even
for an offlist hint.)
I'm running tests on NetBSD 9 amd64, and realize that I may be the first
to do so.
A few comments from the perspective of a gdal tes
