Hi Gábor,

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 02:12:39PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Besides, I have to admit that I am quite disheartened to see these lines
> > in the log:
> >
> > -- snip --
> > 2019/07/26 11:39:28 Validated items: 0
> > 2019/07/26 11:39:32 Validated items: 10000
>
> These are necessary for Travis CI, which aborts the build if it
> doesn't receive output for 10 minutes, thinking that the tests hang
> somewhere.  Yeah, less lines like these would be sufficient to avoid
> that timeout, but, of course, the real solution would be to not
> validate all of 'make test'.

To be crystal clear: I was not disheartened by seeing the *amount* of
lines, but by the sheer amount of time burned up just to verify
a feature that only very, very few users will ever need.

The entire validation's runtime rivals the one of a full run of the
entire test suite. (Which _already_ takes too long to be effective. Just
look how even at least one long-time contributor often simply skips
running it before submitting patches, most likely because they don't
want to wait.)

Ciao,
Dscho