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Re: Some issues..

Thomas writes:
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 > On Thursday 29 April 2004 13:39, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > I don't see the problem, really. ?If it doesn't run on some system,
 > > what is lost? ?All that happens is a few test failures.
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 > For most test environments I make the whole build fail as soon as a test 
 > fails; this is implemented in the ant-based mauve test as well.
 > The reason for this is simple; if a test fails its a regression bug; you can't 
 > commit changes while you have a regression bug.

Okay, but if you're going to insist on this you need a way to mark
known/expected failures: does any VM pass everything?  So, why not
mark this whole thing as "known to fail" on Windows and move on?

Andrew.
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