[petsc-dev] Regression tests

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Jed Brown wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> > > The naming/clasification is not perfect.
> > >
> > > Looks like Barry tried to fix this - by adding a target
> > > tests_DATAFILESPATH - but now it has both C and fortran examples in
> > > it? [i.e TESTEXAMPLES_FORTRAN_NOCOMPLEX and TESTEXAMPLES_C_NOCOMPLEX]
> > >
> > > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev/rev/c37110e4b450
> > >
> > > Perhaps this stuff needs an overhaul..
> > >
> >
> > I also think it should be overhauled so that examples can be tagged when
> > they are declared. I think that Python declarative syntax is easy, but it
> > would be good to parse the existing makefiles to avoid needing a manual
> > conversion.
> >
> > Is everyone okay with the test suite depending on Python?
>
> I think python is fine - as long as the run targets still remain in
> the makefile.
>

I am fine with having run targets, AS LONG as they are not shell. Make them
Python.
Make can run python just as well as shell/

    Matt


> Are you saying each 'run' target in the makefile will be tagged - and
> the python script will parse this tag?
>
> Satish
>
>


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