[Cython] Test runner

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:07 AM, mark florisson
<markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another, different but related issue: how can we get useful output
> from the test runner? e.g. I'm running my test with a
> '@cython.test_assert_path_exists("...")' and I get this error output:
>
> ======================================================================
> ERROR: runTest (__main__.CythonRunTestCase)
> compiling (c) and running parallel
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "runtests.py", line 555, in run
>    self.runCompileTest()
>  File "runtests.py", line 386, in runCompileTest
>    self.test_directory, self.expect_errors, self.annotate)
>  File "runtests.py", line 532, in compile
>    self.assertEquals(None, unexpected_error)
> AssertionError: None != u'9:0: Compiler crash in TreeAssertVisitor'
>
> So I'm seeing a traceback from the test runner (which I'm not really
> interested in :), but the actual traceback is not displayed.

I agree this could be improved, but I'm not sure the best way to do it.

> Can I also specify special link and compiler flags for a certain test,
> like in http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements/distutils_preprocessing ?
> Or do I have to export LDFLAGS and CFLAGS in my environment?

You can't right now, but it would probably be worth adding. I'm not
sure how we would handle missing dependancies in that case though.

- Robert