[Jython-dev] bugtests

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

I have not paid any attention to the bugtest ant target but Frank's 
notes on releasing say one should run it. It fails miserably.

The tests fail on Windows, because of the way the command line is 
created in bugtests/support.py, but if I fix that, most pass, but many 
do not, and for what appears at first to be a good reason.

Maybe some of these failures are regressions, but on the whole, the 
problem seems to be with the tests. test235 and test236 need .java files 
missing from bugtests/classes; test321 and quite some others fail 
because the class path does not include dist/javalib/*; yet others are 
more obscure.

There has been a great culls in the past. This changeset 
(https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/f494dce0a7e5) is an example and it 
looks carefully reasoned -- tests are superseded by regrtests. However, 
it accidently blows away some files used by tests it leaves behind. The 
bugtest target can't have run cleanly since that point, which is an odd 
way to leave things.

Do we take these tests seriously?

-- 
Jeff Allen