Hi, today I noticed some issues with the tinderbox runs of lang/python33
First of all, the test: target introduced causes artifacts within
${PREFIX}, effectively polluting the user environment. Is this really
intended?
In my opinion a port, that executes the test target, should do this either
in a separate directory/environment to avoid cluttering the user's
environment with garbage (well, it's Python's fault here in my opinion
to use a test/data directory for the test results).
However, a user will most likely not execute a test target within a typical
installation procedure, tinderbox however does, causing two issues:
- around 15 test files are created in %%PYTHON_SITELIBDIR%%/test/data
- the python test cases randomly crash and require about 45 minutes to
run, whereas they take about 5 minutes to run outside of a tinderbox
and never crash[1]
The usefulness of the test target hence is (at the moment) zero,
contradicting its purpose.
I would strongly advocate to back it out asap.
If there are no other opinions on that, I'll do so on the next Sunday.
[1] on my box of course :-)
Cheers
Marcus
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