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Re: List TAP test files in makefiles

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-23T15:23:21Z
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On 2025-08-23 Sa 10:38 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2025-08-23 10:17:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> We should be striving to make the meson system as easy to use as
>> autoconf/make, not trying to attain parity by making the latter experience
>> worse.
> FWIW, I find the autoconf/make test run experience completely unusable. It
> literally is made me embark on getting away from it. I don't understand how
> people stand it.
>


Honestly, they both have annoyances and points where it's easy to get 
into the weeds. There are definitely cases where meson has left me 
scratching my head.

But I think this is really analogous to adding a new object file. That 
needs to be added to the Makefile as well as the meson.build file, and I 
don't see why tests shouldn't work the same. That might be slightly 
annoying, but it would be way down on my list.


cheers


andrew


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