For various reasons I happened to run 'python -m test.regrtest' on my Gentoo installed Python. For 2.5.4 only test_tarfile failed (it tries to write into the read-only installed test directory). On 2.6.2 test_tarfile passes, but other test suites, including test_distutils, do not.
So this posting is a general reminder that the tests should not make assumptions about the writabilty of the test directory (or, for that matter, of the CWD). When I get time I'll file bugs on the particular failures I'm seeing, after I do an install from checkout. --David _______________________________________________ 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
