[llvm-dev] RFC: Move the test-suite LLVM project to GitHub?

[Hal Finkel via llvm-dev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> To: "Joerg Sonnenberger" <joerg at britannica.bec.de>
> Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:30:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] RFC: Move the test-suite LLVM project to GitHub?
> 
> 
> > On Feb 24, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev
> > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:20:24PM -0700, Jonathan Roelofs via
> > llvm-dev wrote:
> >> 2) There is the cap on total repository size, which is in the
> >> neighborhood
> >> of 1Gb [3]. A fresh checkout of test-suite clocks in at just over
> >> 3Gb. This
> >> one actually is a problem.
> > 
> > This is not really true. Individual pack files must be below 1GB,
> > but
> > the total repository can be much larger. That's true even for the
> > free
> > tiers. That said, it might be good idea to split the repository
> > into
> > modules to keep it managable.
> > 
> 
> I'm really in favor of a modular test-suite, splitting as much as
> possible the infrastructure with the individual suites, and making
> it super easy and convenient to assemble modular suites together. We
> already have the mechanism for "external" test-suite, it would just
> need to be first-class.
> i.e. I'd like to clone the test-suite, which would get me only the
> infrastructure but no test to run, and then easily say: "clone these
> test-suite and make them available: llvm, Halide, etc." which would
> clone them from separate repositories. And then list the available
> suite and quick runs over chosen ones.
> 
> Just some thoughts...

As a longer-term goal, this sounds really nice.

 -Hal

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Hal Finkel
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