[Python-Dev] test failures on Debian unstable (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:55:52 -0500

If you want to change the skip mechanism on Linux, I've already said that's fine by me. Let's hear from other Linux users: is the mechanism useless to you? Counterproductive? I've got nothing new to say about it. I haven't seen a specific suggestion for what you'd like to do here, apart from what appear to be rhetorical devices.

I use two Linux boxes with somewhat different setups, and some tests are skipped on one box but not on the other. I'd be happier if I could tune the skip mechanism by editing a file that's not checked in.

The following would probably work well: when the file doesn't exist, the internal table is used; but when the file exists, it replaces the internal table. (I thought about copying the internal table to the file when the file doesn't exist, but the problem with that is that if the internal evolves, you don't automatically get the updates, even if you don't edit the file.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)