My personal opinion?

If the users got to the point of downloading and installing IMP and all dependencies
without any trouble ... then that is the kind of people that don't get scared by a couple of failing tests :)


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Ben Webb <ben@salilab.org> wrote:
On 10/21/13 11:51 AM, Barak Raveh wrote:
If they just run "ctest" right after the installation (which is a
very good idea), I assume the SAXS tests will run by default, and
they will get a lot of failures and be confused.

Actually they will get precisely one failure.


But otherwise, it is nice if after you download the release and run
cmake, you will get a completely clean result

It would also be nice if when you sent your kids to school, the school didn't tell you that all the teachers were deranged lunatics. But if they were, wouldn't you want to know? ;)

Anyhow, if you want an artificially "clean" result, there are two perfectly good decorators to skip a test or to mark the failure as expected. Look for @unittest.skip or @unittest.expectedFailure in the existing set of tests.


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