On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Allison Randal <allison@parrot.org> wrote:
It might eventually be useful to add to the py3k branch, though I wouldn't include it in release tarballs. Or, if another repo is started for the benchmark tests, the bootstrapping tests might be added there. We'll contribute it to the PSF, anyway, so it's available. It does depend on SubUnit, which isn't part of the standard library. I can strip it down to a minimal subset of SubUnit's features and include them in the test running script if that makes it more generally useful.
I think including these in the common repository would be useful. We've been doing something similar for our LLVM backend, and I can think of at least one other infant Python implementation project that would benefit from this kind of thing. I imagine every new Python implementation goes through the phase of "well, we don't have enough working to use unittest.py, but we still want tests"; I'd like to save these projects the need to reinvent at least this particular wheel. Collin Winter