[Python-Dev] My thinking about the development process

[Donald Stufft]

> On Dec 6, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7 December 2014 at 01:07, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> A likely solution is to use a pre-merge test runner for the systems that we
>> can isolate which will give a decent indication if the tests are going to
>> pass across the entire supported matrix or not and then continue to use the
>> current post-merge test runner to handle testing the esoteric systems that
>> we can’t work into the pre-merge testing.
> 
> Yep, that's exactly the approach I had in mind for this problem.
> 

I’m coming around to the idea for pip too, though I’ve been trying to figure out a way to do pre-merge testing using isolated for even the esoteric platforms. One thing that I’d personally greatly appreciate is if this whole process made it possible for selected external projects to re-use the infrastructure for the harder to get platforms. Pip and setuptools in particular would make good candidates for this I think.

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