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

Patrick K. O'Brien pobrien@orbtech.com
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:04:39 -0600

On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:28 pm, Tim Peters wrote:

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.

Here is my 2 cents worth. For some time I've been using the binary distro of Python on Windows. But I recently compiled Python for Linux, for the first time. When I saw the list of unexpected skips, it prompted me to download and install the necessary libraries and recompile Python. So I definitely found that aspect to be very helpful.

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