On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:26, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I don't like knownfailure much anyway: I feel like it is > too easy to tag one test known failure, and then nobody cares about it > anymore. Those formatting problems were already problems before - the > tests only show the problem, it does not cause the problem, so I don't > understand why it is so important: a 100 % running test suite with a > problem which is not shown or a 95 % running test suite with the > problem is the same thing; the code in numpy itself is exactly the > same. Don't check in failing tests without using knownfailure. Unit tests are used by others to determine whether or not *they* broke things or whether their installation failed. By checking in a failing test, you are sending others on a wild goose chase trying to figure out what they did wrong when they didn't. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion