2011/3/6 Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se>: > In a message of Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:00:04 GMT, holger krekel writes: > <snip> > >>On a sidenote, i'd actually like to avoid shipping pytest and >>py lib within the PyPy source tree especially now that there are >>three extra items "pytest.py", "py" and "_pytest" cluttering >>up the pypy root. (There are good reasons for this which >>have not much to do with PyPy though). FWIW I don't plan to >>do many wild releases of pytest in the foreseeable future :) >> >>best, >>holger > > I think I am confused. If we begin shipping pypy without a py.test > that is known to work with it, then some year in the future some poor > soul (maybe me) who happens to want to run an old verion of pypy -- > say a hypothetical pypy 1.5 that comes with no included py.test -- > may find that your latest and greatest py.test does not run the tests. > And then it will be a matter of archeology to find out what version of > py.test does work with this release. Is there something wrong with > this understanding?
If you're using an old version of PyPy, there's probably going to be a lot of archeology anyway. I don't see how py.test is any different than another dep like gcc or boehm. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
