selftest --strict can never work?

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:48 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> Rather, the design is not fully implemented.  Per my document, strict
> is meant to fail on missing dependencies that could be fixed by eg
> installing more software, but not fail because of platform
> dependencies.  At the moment we do not distinguish those cases with
> different exception classes.

Ok. I think this is my fault, I used Feature for things that can be
fixed by installing strace. Certainly TestSkipped is in my head for
things that can be fixed.

> My test framework patch is one more step towards it, if you review
> that then I'll do the next bit which is to distinguish missing
> libraries from platform limits.

ok, I'll see how today pans out.

Rob

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