197233 - Make it possible to pull tree without tests

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Currently when you pull Mozilla from CVS you will get a huge number of test
applications, and test files (HTML, XML, CSS, you name it). 

Those that just want to build Mozilla don't need these. Also the pull would be
much quicker, there would be less network traffic, and the tree would require
much less space.

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Sorry, but the moment you allow people to optionally pull test applications by
default is the moment that they don't get updated when big things change. 
That's part of the penalty of our XP code.  If people do not want to build
tests, we already a configure option, --disable-tests, to handle that.  If
people are worried about pulling time, then they should use the standalone
build/pull options like xpcom does,
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/doc/xpcom-standalone.html .  See
the full list of pullable standalone modules based upon MODULES & REQUIRES at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/build/unix/modules.mk .

The test files are different.  However, I don't think there's any way to stop
pulling those, short of cvs removing them, without changing the SeaMonkey cvs
module definition.  If we change that definition, then we will not be able to
pull those files with old releases.