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Re: the curl user survey 2019 analysis

From: Kamil Dudka via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:18:49 +0200

On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 7:27:16 AM CEST Jeffrey Walton via curl-library
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 12:56 AM Dennis Clarke via curl-library
>
> <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
> > On 6/5/19 12:04 AM, Jeffrey Walton via curl-library wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
> > >
> > > <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
> > >> I've finally managed to sum up what 732 users told us in this year's
survey:
> > >> https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/06/04/curl-user-survey-2019-analys
> > >> is/
> > >
> > > Nice work on the report Daniel.
> > >
> > > For next year's survey I would be interested to know what percentage
> > > of the folks who build cURL from sources run the self tests before
> > > installation (re: Building curl). It is merely a a curiosity of mine.
> >
> > I would never have suspected that anyone would *ever* do the install
> > without a clean test suite. At the very least a single failed test
> > may be harmless on a given architecture but to not do the test suite
> > at all seems just blunt trauma wrong.
>
> If you look at the chart for Contributions (p. 21), it looks like "I
> run tests or provide infrastructure" has about 2% of the share. I
> would expect anyone who builds cURL from sources and runs 'make check'
> should respond YES.
>
> Jeff

That is not how I understood the question. I thought that YES was reserved
for people who maintain some publicly available CI infrastructure for upstream
curl, something on https://curl.haxx.se/dev/builds.html or Github-based CI.

Kamil

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