[python-committers] [Infrastructure] test suite dependencies on www.python.org

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 20.03.13 04:27, schrieb R. David Murray:
> Example:
> 
>     request = urllib.request.Request("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/")
> 
> And then there are things like:
> 
>     h = client.HTTPSConnection('svn.python.org', 443, context=context)
> 
> I don't think there are a huge number of these, but we will need to
> deal with them.

In the past, we just let them break and then fix the test case,
which is not the best solution, but also not overly tragic (IMO).

Note that the redesign project includes an objective of URL stability.
The test suite is here of least concern, as there are thousands of
incoming links to various pages. These need to be preserved as much
as feasible (possibly using redirects).

Regards,
Martin