[Martin asks whether Irmen wants to be a tracker admin on SF] [Irmen de Jong] > That sounds very convenient, thanks. > Does the status of 'python project member' come with > certain expectations that must be complied with ? ;-)
If you're using Python, you're already required to comply with all of Guido's demands, this would just make it more official. Kinda like the difference in sanctifying cohabitation with a marriage ceremony <wink>. OK, really, the minimum required of Python project members is that they pay some attention to Python-Dev. >>> 2- As shadow passwords can only be retrieved when >>> you are root, is a unit test module even useful? >> Probably not. Alternatively, introduce a "root" resource, >> and make that test depend on the presence of the root resource. > I'm not sure what this "resource" is actually. > I have seen them pass on my screen when executing the > regression tests (resource "network" is not enabled, etc) > but never paid much attention to them. > Are they used to select optional parts of the test suite > that can only be run in certain conditions? That's right, where "the condition" is precisely that you tell regrtest.py to enable a (one or more) named resource. There's no intelligence involved. "Resource names" are arbitrary, and can be passed to regrtest.py's -u argument. See regrtest's docstring for details. For example, to run the tests that require the network resource, pass "-u network". Then it will run network tests, and regardless of whether a network is actually available. Passing "-u all" makes it try to run all tests. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
