Hi all, I've been looking at #6017 and #5943 of late. These two tickets have been around for a while; one of the biggest reasons that they have taken so long to address is that they cover an area of Django where the testing isn't automated - the behaviour of django-admin.py and manage.py. As a result, it's very hard to validate that when a change is made that the change doesn't break some obscure use case for these scripts.
I've just uploaded a patch to #6017 that will hopefully address this issue. The patch 'django-admin-tests.diff' contains a prototype test framework for django-admin and manage.py scripts. It works by spawning a child process using popen3, setting up the test environment using a bash script and checking the contents of stdout an stderr as a test condition. At this point, I'd appreciate some feedback. In particular, I need a sanity check that the test scripts run on other unix-based systems. I've run this test under OS X Leopard, and all the tests pass for me. However, I don't have particularly ready access to a Linux etc development box, so I can't confirm if there is any platform-specific wierdness that I need to account for. I would also appreciate it if anyone could confirm that the same test approach will work for Windows. I have almost no access to Windows boxes for development purposes, so I'm completely in the dark here. However, as far as I am aware, popen3 should be available and operate in much the same fashion as it does under Unix, so the only modifications required should be writing a .BAT script to set up the environment and modifying the utility routine that starts the script. If I'm wrong, any suggestions for an alternate approach are welcome. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
