[Python-Dev] test_email always supposed to be skipped?

[Tim Peters]

test_email is supposed to run, whether from the build directory or from an
installation.  It does both on Windows today, so yours must be a
platform-specific bug.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-dev-admin@python.org [mailto:python-dev-admin@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Brett Cannon
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 6:57 PM
> To: python-dev@python.org
> Subject: [Python-Dev] test_email always supposed to be skipped?
>
>
> I just updated my copy of CVS, compiled, and installed and once again the
> test_email testing suite was skipped because regrtest.py couldn't find
> email.test when running it from my newly installed copy.  Since the
> Makefile does not list email/test as a subdirectory to install I assume
> it is not supposed to be installed and all of this is on purpose.  So why
> even have test_email.py installed if it is always going to fail?  If the
> only way to run it is to use the executable compiled in your CVS
> directory I don't see the point of having ``make install`` copy
> test_email over.
> Would it be reasonable to add a note to test_email.py that email.test is
> not installed and so it being skipped is expected outside of the CVS
> directory?  Or add some code that will just pass the test if email.test
> can't be imported?  Or at least have it raise TestSkipped on its own and
> have it output that this is expected if you are not running from a
> copy of CVS?
>
>  -Brett
>
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