On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 at 12:07, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Dino Viehland <di...@microsoft.com> wrote:
We are going to start contributing tests back real soon now. I'm not sure
that these are the best tests to contribute as they require a version of
Python to compare against rather than being nice and stand alone. But I'm
sure we have other tests which cover this as well just not as exhaustively.
We could also possibly check in the baseline file and then CPython could
compare it's self to previous versions but it'd probably be a pretty
big file - so it probably shouldn't be included in the standard install
in the tests directory.
How big is big? For comparison, CPython's Lib/test/decimaltestdata
directory alone is already over 4Mb, so maybe size isn't an issue?
For big test files, there's also the option of including download logic
in the test to go retrieve it from a known URL (I believe we already do
that for some of the codec tests).
We do. There's even support code in test.support for handling such
downloads relatively cleanly (and cleaning up afterward, though that
last was only added recently).
--David
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