[MERGE] Speedup selftest by loading a previously saved test list

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "john" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

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    john> BB:comment

    john> Overall this looks like a decent patch. I wonder if we shouldn't
    john> continue to use test_suite() when possible and just have it thunk into
    john> load_tests(...).

We can't. We want to share the loader and using test_suite (which
takes no parameter) makes it impossible.

    john> I'm not sure if it is worthwhile as long as we keep
    john> bzrlib.tests.test_suite().

    john> I also wonder how broken we are relative to other test
    john> suite runners,

Care to mention some ? But keep in mind, that this patch change
only the way we *load* the tests, not how we run them.

    john> 
    john> but I don't see any direct indication of our test suite
    john> not working for it, since we still have our topmost
    john> .test_suite() call which is still returning TestSuite
    john> objects, etc. So I don't think your patch would change
    john> our compatibility in an direct sense.

Especially since test_suite() looks like a bzrism AFAIK.

           Vincent