[Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> So it isn't that it's "unexpected", it's that a dependency is missing.
> So it seems the terminology needs to get tweaked.

More that the phrase "expected skip" isn't clearly defined and people
sometimes guess wrong as to what it means. As Martin pointed out,
there are two possible meanings: "will never work on this OS" and
"won't work with just the base OS install". Currently, the "expected
skip" list is based purely on the former, but developers occasionally
interpret it as the latter (as Bill did in this case).

I will note that the first list is much easier to keep up to date,
since the latter may vary significantly based on vendor decisions as
to what they install by default (a fairly significant factor in the
Linux and *BSD worlds).

Adding "(Were all optional modules built successfully?)" to the end of
the "skips were unexpected" line in the regrtest output may be enough
to eliminate the confusion.

Cheers,
Nick.

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