Re: [Jython-dev] bugtests

[Jim B. <jim...@py...>]

I would remove them completely. These tests are largely 18 or so years old,
and date to the initial implementation of Jython/JPython. I personally
surprised they are still there, but there is always cleanup to be done in
such a large project, and we just didn't around to this specific cleaning
in the past.

There is also some testing of JPythonC, which we abandoned 10+ years ago,
since it is not possible to implement such key functionality as generators,
etc, strictly in Java instead of Java bytecode - at least not without
significant performance hits (eg using a Python bytecode approach).

- Jim

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:19 PM Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:

> 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 looks carefully reasoned -- tests are superseded by regrtests.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
>
>
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