On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:52, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
So it isn't that it's "unexpected", it's that a dependency is missing. So it seems the terminology needs to get tweaked. _______________________________________________ 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
