Re: pygettext.py

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:42AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Laura Creighton]
> > er, re: Not sure what snake-farm has to do with this
> >
> > This is a module which is not included due to not enough testing,
> > correct?
> 
> pygettext.py lives in a subdirectory under the Tools directory.  Such things
> never get into the Windows distro unless somebody specifically asks for
> them -- they're generally undocumented and have no test cases.  I'd be happy
> to add the Tools/i18n/ subdirectory anyway, it's simply that nobody
> requested it.
> 
> > And the Snake Farm claims to test things with the aim of producing
> > certified to run everywhere stuff.  And here we have a real user who
> > says that this belongs in Python, ie PIT -- he thinks it belongs with
> > all pythons, period.
> 
> The status of the Tools and Demo directories is muddy.  No docs, no tests,
> much of it is platform-specific, and some is so old that it doesn't work at
> all anymore.

There are currently no tests except from regression tests done in the
Farm. One might test the contents of "make install" or similar
targets, to verify that they follow a certain structure and contains
certain files. This would be similar to the LSB conformance testing.

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