python-minimal test suite

[Matthias Klose]

Am Montag, den 17.01.2005, 18:47 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:01:02AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
> > Am Dienstag, den 11.01.2005, 12:51 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > I agree, I don't think it makes sense to patch the tests.
> > > 
> > > 150k is for the dependencies of time.strptime, yes?
> > 
> > correct.
> > 
> > > How large are the dependencies of the test suite itself?
> > 
> > the size of the whole library, as the test suite is supposed to test the
> > whole library ;)
> 
> Obviously.  But you were talking about dependencies of the infrastructure to
> run the tests, and that's what I meant.

No, the time.strptime dependency is independent from the testsuite
dependencies.

> What would we need besides time.strptime in order to run the test suite over
> python-minimal using only python-minimal?

I'll look at it, but I currently don't see a value having this extra run
of the testsuite.

> > > > Another outcome: copy and operator are used very often in the testsuite,
> > > > so maybe add them to -minimal as well.
> > > 
> > > How big are they?
> > 
> > copy.py is 10k, operator.so 20k.
> 
> Let's go ahead and add those.

ok.