Bazaar 2.2 Windows installer - selftest broken

[Maritza Mendez]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 19 August 2010 16:14, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> >> Interesting.  Can you elaborate on this or direct me to a thread
> >> describing this known issue?  For example, is this a temporary known
> >> issue, or is it an issue-by-design?  I am asking because I've been
> >> assuming (oops!) that all stable releases of bzr are subjected to pretty
> >> much the same regression suite on all supported platforms.  Is that a
> >> bad assumption?
>
> We test on Windows, but we test before it's packaged up in to an exe.
>
> > It's because of how py2exe'd python application works.
> >
> > Standalone bzr.exe is python application packaged into binary
> > executable with py2exe tool. So it can work without Python interpreter
> > installed in your system.
> >
> > Some parts of bzrlib tests expects to have the real Python interpreter
> > to succeed. This is just not true in the case of bzr.exe. So you can
> > expect those tests to fail.
>
> I think it would be reasonable for those to be marked as skipped tests
> in the case where we don't have a regular python interpreter.  If
> someone wants to tackle this you just need to add a new test
> dependency feature in tests.features, then call self.requireFeature in
> the relevant tests.
>
> --
> Martin
>


Thanks for clarifying that, Martin and Alexander.  That makes perfect
reason.  A few months back I was running the selftest on Windows (using
native python package of course) and I was wondering if there had been a
change of policy since then.

FWIW, I think this is fine.  I would not expect a lot of value added in a
special test suite for the py2exe'd bzr.

Thanks
~M
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