On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Carl Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ian Bicking wrote: >> A shorter time commitment is to download pip and run the tests on >> Windows and report problems, as it's unfortunately quite possible >> we've introduced Windows regressions. > > I did a bit of work on getting pip tests running under Windows last > spring, but didn't get very far. There were many test failures, most of > them seemingly superficial: posix-specific assumptions about file > locations and path separators in the tests themselves, not necessarily > broken functionality in pip (though it's hard to say for sure with > broken tests). Fixing those issues isn't hard, just tedious. I don't > know what deeper issues or regressions might be uncovered once the tests > run.
Probably some of those issues could also be fixed in ScriptTest, instead of making the pip tests tediously platform abstracted (e.g., normalizing \ vs /). -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
