[Ns-developers] Request to commit -fvisbility=hiddenpythonbindings patch

[Ruben Merz]

craigdo at ee.washington.edu wrote:
>> Craig, I don't understand what you mean by "*all* the tests".  We have
>> automated regression testing on several platforms and 
>> compilers.  What more
>> can we do manually, and why can't that manual work be done 
>> automatically by
>> the build farm?
> 
> Cygwin is a supported platform but there is no way to test it since there is
> no VM.  There are examples that are not part of the main regression test
> suite since manual configuration or intervention is required (emu, tap).
> There are contrib pieces that need to be run and output interpreted (Joe's
> statistics stuff).  There is the wifi-ad-hoc experiment stuff that needs to
> be run to make sure it didn't get broken.  I'm sure there are more, but this
> is just off the top of my head. Tom is really good at finding stuff like
> this :-)

What is the wifi-ad-hoc experiment stuff?

Ruben

> We should have fully automated tests, but we just aren't there yet.
> 
> -- Craig
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