[CMake] CxxTest failure output running unit tests

[Philip Lowman]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:
>
> However, all that said, I suppose an option to output on failure would not
>> be so bad as long as it is not the default.
>
>
> All things being equal, I actually think output on failure probably would
> have been a better default for most users with the current behavior of CTest
> being achieved through some kind of "--summarize" flag.  Of course my
> opinion is coming as a C++ developer where if a "unit test" fails within
> CxxTest we're dealing with perhaps 15 lines of output.  Obviously CTest does
> more than just unit tests.  When you test CMake within CTest I can imagine
> some of the more complicated tests like bootstrap could be closer to 1500
> lines of output (wouldn't want that one to fail) =)
>

And yes, I agree with output on error not being the default.

-- 
Philip Lowman
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