[Distutils] Tasks arising from IPC9

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:31:41PM -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:19:04PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>Could we make a similar decision on the name of the command (before
>>actually adding support for it to distutils), so that package
>>authors can start coding their own implementation now ?!
>
>"test" seems the most obvious command name, so let's choose that.
>(Which reminds me... they don't seem to have added PyUnit to the core yet...)

Along with the name, I think that it'll have to have a default stub which
does an "exit(0)" (the default test succeeds) so that the lack of a test
doesn't show up the same as a test failure.

Sean
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