[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

Sat Aug 31 22:53:58 CEST 2013

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

>
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > distutils itself is nigh impossible to work on, since it is
> underspecified, and
> > the fact it was added to the standard two years before unittest still
> shows in
> > its test suite.
>
> I don't have any code coverage numbers, but distutils has a sizable test
> suite (and has had since Tarek started working on it):
>
> $ ./python -m test -v test_distutils
> [...]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 191 tests in 1.481s
>
> OK (skipped=14)
>
>
>From a coverage report generated for PyCon Canada's sprints (yay devinabox):

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