On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 17:29 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
[….]
> in my intermediate "test framework" project on Bitbucket I supported the 
> special "sconstest-*.py" syntax for marking tests.
> When integrating the support for testing external Tools into the SCons 
> core, I skipped this naming rule for the benefit of staying fully 
> compatible with the regression tests so far, and not having to introduce 
> another filename syntax.

This naming policy is actually extremely helpful, it is a pity is does
not work in the core.  I have many modules that are support modules for
tests, they are not tests themselves but are just shared code to avoid
replication.  Without a naming scheme you cannot do any modules that
aren't actually test modules.

Or perhaps there is a place for modules that are on the PYTHONPATH, not
actual tests but are modules accessible to tests. 

> At the moment, meaning latest revision in "default", the test framework 
> supports the skipping of whole
> folders (like, for a supporting Python package) by adding a 
> "sconstest.skip" file. A list of single files to skip can also be 
> specified in a file named ".exclude_tests (see 
> QMTest/test-framework.rst, sect. "Finding Tests").
> 
> Does this help already, or do you need a different functionality?

This is getting close. The issue is whether the directory is on the
PYTHONPATH or can trivially be put on the PYTHONPATH without egregious
hacking.

For now I will create a Support directory for the test/D hierarchy and
edit sys.path to add this to the path – but this is exactly egregious
hacking :-(

Thanks.

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