[Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jun 30 21:53:08 CEST 2010

The whole "unexpected" skipping is somewhat of a mess. In an ideal situation modules that are optionally built should be allowed to skip,

While this may be the wide-spread interpretation, it is definitely not the original intention of the feature.

When Tim Peters added it, he wanted it to tell him whether he did the Windows build correctly, INCLUDING ALL OPTIONAL PACKAGES that can possibly work on Windows. If you try to generalize this beyond Windows, then the only skips that are expected are the ones for tests that absolutely cannot work on the platform - i.e. Unix tests on Windows, and Windows tests on Unix. Otherwise, if you can get it to pass by installing additional software, Tim did not mean this to be an expected skip.

Regards, Martin

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