PEP: Procedure for Adding New Modules (please comment)

[Steve Holden]

"Paul Winkler" <slinkp23 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > Open issues
> >
> >     Should there be a list of what criteria integrators use for
> >     evaluating contributions? (source code but also things like
> >     documentation and a test suite, as well as such vague things like
> >     'dependability of the maintainers').
>
> I think test suites would be a very, very good idea. At a minimum, some
doctest
> examples. Even better would be a well-defined suite of unit tests using
the
> unittest module. I propose that this be made a requirement for adding new
> modules to the standard library.
>
> It would be A Good Thing if unit tests were added to the existing standard
> library modules, but my mind boggles at the size of the job.

You have to admit the library does get a pretty fair testing in the standard
tests, even if they aren't using unittest (note: the tests don't come with
binary distributions AFAIK).

regards
 Steve
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