[racket-dev] DrDr & the split repository

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 5 09:37:20 EST 2014

Yes. It may be possible to write a script to port props, but I think
the errors are few enough it isn't worth it.

Jay

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> And just to confirm: we should be checking into our own failures in
> drdr and fixing the info files now, right?
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since we split the repository, there have been significantly more
>> errors on DrDr:
>>
>> http://drdr.racket-lang.org/
>>
>> This is mainly because DrDr used to use a monolithic metadata file:
>>
>> https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/pkgs/plt-services/meta/props
>>
>> This meta-data file included things like "Don't run this file" and
>> "Give it a timeout of 5 minutes" or "This program fails randomly, so
>> don't blame the committer". But we can't use this centralized metadata
>> with the decentralized repository.
>>
>> Instead, Matthew changed "raco test" (which is how DrDr tests
>> programs) to support all these options. They can be test on a
>> per-directory or per-file basis. The documentation for this is here:
>>
>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/test.html?q=raco%20test#%28part._test-config%29
>>
>> Jay
>>
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>> Jay McCarthy
>> http://jeapostrophe.github.io
>>
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Jay McCarthy
http://jeapostrophe.github.io

           "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing,
      for ye are laying the foundation of a great work.
And out of small things proceedeth that which is great."
                          - D&C 64:33

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