Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > The whole "unexpected" skipping is somewhat of a mess. In an ideal > > situation modules that are optionally built should be allowed to skip, > > While this may be the wide-spread interpretation, it is definitely *not* > the original intention of the feature. > > When Tim Peters added it, he wanted it to tell him whether he did the > Windows build correctly, INCLUDING ALL OPTIONAL PACKAGES that can > possibly work on Windows. If you try to generalize this beyond Windows, > then the only skips that are expected are the ones for tests that > absolutely cannot work on the platform - i.e. Unix tests on Windows, > and Windows tests on Unix. Otherwise, if you can get it to pass by > installing additional software, Tim did *not* mean this to be an > expected skip.
Perfectly reasonable, good to know. So on my OS X buildbots I should update gdb, tcl/tk, and readline, so that those tests can run. Probably be good to put a note in the regrtest.py comments to this effect, as I don't see a PEP about testing or buildbots. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
