[stdlib-sig] bootstrapping test suite

[Collin Winter]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Allison Randal <allison at parrot.org> wrote:
> It might eventually be useful to add to the py3k branch, though I wouldn't
> include it in release tarballs. Or, if another repo is started for the
> benchmark tests, the bootstrapping tests might be added there. We'll
> contribute it to the PSF, anyway, so it's available. It does depend on
> SubUnit, which isn't part of the standard library. I can strip it down to a
> minimal subset of SubUnit's features and include them in the test running
> script if that makes it more generally useful.

I think including these in the common repository would be useful.
We've been doing something similar for our LLVM backend, and I can
think of at least one other infant Python implementation project that
would benefit from this kind of thing. I imagine every new Python
implementation goes through the phase of "well, we don't have enough
working to use unittest.py, but we still want tests"; I'd like to save
these projects the need to reinvent at least this particular wheel.

Collin Winter