[Python-Dev] Re: Test breakage due to optparse

Sat Jul 31 22:59:59 CEST 2004

[Tim]
> Heads up. Recent changes to optparse and/or to its test are causing
> several spurious test failures, ...

OK, this is definitely the fault of the recent optparse checkins. For
whatever reason, after test_optparse runs, regrtest.py is convinced
that the test directory is '/foo/bar'. After that, it can't (among
other things) find the expected-output files anymore for tests that
run after test_optparse.
I'm sure I'll have that fixed soon. But I want to whine about this
one more time: PLEASE don't check things in without running the whole
test suite! Each weekend now I'm struggling like hell to give some
time to Python, and I largely piss it away fixing new test breakage in
tests that must have failed on the platform where the patch was
developed. I have all the sympathy in the world for Windows-specific
test breakage due to patches developed on Linux, but I'm out of
sympathy for plain sloppiness.
So there.