Any remaining test patches?

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Mon May 23 16:34:10 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> So in your other email you suggest a simple attribute system where we
> use a set of named tags, but with no meanings that a generic test agent
> will know about, just to be used as way for users to filter on tests.
>
> Then here you've got a few suggestions for attributes with particular
> meanings to the test agent. Perhaps that kind of combination is enough,
> and we don't need anything to declare any kind of meaning. I think it's
> probably worth thinking about this part a bit more though.

I think widely used attribute such as 'size' should be fields in the
record while more specific ones such as 'css-tests' should go into
tags. If some attributes in tags turns out to be of general enough
interest it could be promoted to a record field in a future API
version.

Johan



More information about the cabal-devel mailing list