[Python-Dev] New test failure on Windows (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:16:29 -0400

Perhaps testre should be (or should have been) phased out. Testsre makes many of the same tests (including today's offending one), as well as many new ones, and both run all the many old test from retest. It must be a (historical) quirk that they both exist. It's mostly a waste to run both, and having two is a maintenance hassle, underscored by the fact that Skip has choosen the less important one of the two (IMHO) to modernize.

It's not a high priority, but perhaps I'll look at straightening things out in the (somewhat distant) future.

Yes, this is mostly a historical artefact from the time when SRE was one of the two provided RE implementations. If you can straighten this one out, be my guest. I see no reason to stop working on the tests while Python is in beta.

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