[Python-Dev] Misc. warnings (original) (raw)

"Martin v. L�wis" martin@v.loewis.de
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:10:59 +0100

Tim Peters wrote:

I don't know. I cannot understand the purpose of expectations. If a Python expert for platform sys.platform X would be at all surprised if test T got skipped when running the tests on X, then T should not be listed in _expectations[X]

You mean: If there is no way in the world that this test could ever be skipped, on a computer running this system?

else it should be, with disagreements favoring leaving it out (the disagreeing experts can add a comment to regrtest.py about why they disagree, or make regrtest smarter about recognizing when a test skip is expected).

I feel that reality will turn out differently: it is less work to add it to _expectations, so over the long run, anything that was ever skipped on some installation will end up in _expectations.

Regards, Martin