test naming

[John Arbash Meinel]

Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:38:34AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
>>On 24 Nov 2005, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>so PEP8 says it should be  testcommitmerge.py not test_commitmerge.py or
>>>testcommit_merge.py or test_commit_merge.py. I'm pretty sure we have a
>>>not on this in HACKING.
>>
>>I'm inclined to go with John here, despite PEP 8 (and despite it
>>generally being a good thing to follow PEP 8).  The justification given
>>there is that some filesystems truncate long names.  That is not true
>>for any platform we run on or are likely to run on.  So it's trumped by
>>the meta-rule that readability is more important.
> 
> 
> HACKING still recommends testFOO.py over test_FOO.py, has a decision not
> yet been made, or does it need to be documented?
> 
> Wouter van Heyst
> 
> 

I think it needs to be documented. Because Martin did make a comment
about using test_FOO for clarity.

John
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