Failures and Verbosity

[Andy Armstrong]

On 21 Feb 2009, at 08:58, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> While hacking in a new flag to show test comments, I noticed that the
>> 'failures' option made the 'verbose' option, when it's 1, much less
>> verbose. That seems backwards to me. Should it not be that, when
>> 'failures' is true, it shows failures, but when 'verbose' is >= 1, it
>> should show everything, no matter what 'failures' is set to?
>>
>> The docs day "Only show test failures (this is a no-op if C<verbose>
>> is selected)." That seems much more consistent to me, although I'd
>> like to get rid of the "Only" at the beginning. Should I change that,
>> or have people come to depend on the existing (weird) version?
>
> For now, I've checked in the change to the behavior (r1273), so that
> "failures" (and the new "comments" option) is overridden by verbosity,
> rather than the other way around. I can reverse that, though, if need
> be.

Thanks David. At this point I should also mention the tapx-commit  
mailing list:

http://www.hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/tapx-commit

That gets all the commits plus the output of a number of test runs  
that are triggered post-commit.

Currently every commit generates about 20 test reports - which is  
probably about 20 more than we need if they all say 'PASS' - so I  
think I'll switch to sending only fails sometime in the next few days.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten