On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:53 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > 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.
Note that it works this way on Linux as well. On Kubuntu (for example) you need another half dozen or so additional *-dev packages installed to avoid unexpected test skips. Cheers, Nick. P.S. For anyone curious, I posted the list of extra packages you need here: http://boredomandlaziness.blogspot.com/2010/01/kubuntu-dev-packages-to-build-python.html -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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