[ruby-core:54906] Re: [ruby-cvs:47798] ryan:r40628 (trunk): Fixed minitest dependency bug by removing env PARALLEL checks (no clue why that was there). Exactly the same minitest code tho.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Tanaka Akira <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 2013/5/10  <[e-mail]>:
>> ryan    2013-05-10 09:55:03 +0900 (Fri, 10 May 2013)
>>
>>   New Revision: 40628
>>
>>   http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=40628
>>
>>   Log:
>>     Fixed minitest dependency bug by removing env PARALLEL checks (no clue why that was there). Exactly the same minitest code tho.
>
> This change breaks line-by-line structure of the test results in verbose mode.
>
> For example I can see following results.
>
> TestMiniTestMock#test_not_verify_if_new_expected_method_is_not_called
> = 0.00 s = .
> TestMiniTestMock#test_assign_per_mock_return_values =
> TestMiniTestMock#test_mock_is_a_blank_slate = 0.00 s = 0.00 s = .
> .TestMiniTestMock#test_verify_allows_called_args_to_be_loosely_specified =
> 0.00 s = .TestMiniTestMock#test_expect_with_non_array_args =
> 0.00 s = .
> TestMiniTestRunner#test_run_failing = 0.01 s = .
> TestMiniTestRunner#test_run_skip_verbose = 0.01 s = .
>
> http://www.rubyist.net/~akr/chkbuild/debian/ruby-trunk/log/20130510T015500Z.log.html.gz
>
> This make the result very difficult to process automatically.
>
> In my case, chkbiuld (my continuous integration) compares build log between
> previous build and next build line-by-line.
>
> This line-by-line structure breakage caused useless changes hunks as follows.
>
> http://www.rubyist.net/~akr/chkbuild/debian/ruby-trunk/log/20130510T015500Z.diff.html.gz
>
> Is there any way to preserve line-by-line structure in the results?

Even though there is any workaround. I don't like such as brutal
backward compatibility breaking. :(
I'll bet akr is not only person comparing two test results.