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

[Bill Janssen]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> > The whole "unexpected" skipping is somewhat of a mess. In an ideal
> > situation modules that are optionally built should be allowed to skip,
> 
> While this may be the wide-spread interpretation, it is definitely *not*
> the original intention of the feature.
> 
> When Tim Peters added it, he wanted it to tell him whether he did the
> Windows build correctly, INCLUDING ALL OPTIONAL PACKAGES that can
> possibly work on Windows. If you try to generalize this beyond Windows,
> then the only skips that are expected are the ones for tests that
> absolutely cannot work on the platform - i.e. Unix tests on Windows,
> and Windows tests on Unix. Otherwise, if you can get it to pass by
> installing additional software, Tim did *not* mean this to be an
> expected skip.

Perfectly reasonable, good to know.  So on my OS X buildbots I should
update gdb, tcl/tk, and readline, so that those tests can run.

Probably be good to put a note in the regrtest.py comments to this
effect, as I don't see a PEP about testing or buildbots.

Bill