On 10/30/2025 3:37 AM, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2025-Oct-30, Jakub Wartak wrote:
>
>> Hi Bryan, cfbot is red. I'm was fan of having those tests for this
>> (bring complexity and we didn't have tests for Linux backtrace
>> anyway), but now MINGW win32 is failing on those tests where the
>> feature is not present:
>
> I hate to say this after the code is written, but I think we should not
> put any tests in the first step. I predict that these are going to be
> enormously brittle and that we'll waste a lot of time making them
> stable. I think we should commit the Windows support for backtraces
> first, then consider whether we actually want TAP tests for the overall
> feature. We've gone several years with glibc backtrace support without
> any tests -- why do we think the Windows implementation thereof _must_
> necessarily have them?
>
It will not bother me to remove them. It was my first effort at writing
TAP tests, so it was a nice learning experience.
