From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2012-03-01T14:42:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] minitest-excludes 1.0.1 Released

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:30 , Intransition wrote:
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>> I am wondering, why would one ever use "skip" now as opposed to using this new exclude feature?
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> I did too. It is so that the jruby project can run ruby-core tests w/o modifying them.

Short story: we want to run MRI's tests without modifying them.
excludes provide us a way to have our own isolated list of test
methods to exclude.

I expect this would be useful for any large API's test suite you want
to incrementally support while maintaining a "high water" mark of
currently-passing tests.

- Charlie