Comment 6 for bug 631785

On 8 September 2010 18:12, Vincent Ladeuil <email address hidden> wrote:
>    >> Of course we should isolate the actual tests to ensure we don't
>    >> grab any hidden dependencies though.
>    >>
>    >> A dedicated test suite for the installers sounds like a good plan
>    >> anyway.
>
>    > Just skip tests if we run bzr.exe -- it's easy to create Feature. The
>    > check for bzr.exe is very simple:
>
>    > getattr(sys, "frozen", None) is not None
>
> Sure. But adding a check to *all* existing tests ?
>
> I've thought about that for other needs, and invariably the answer is:
> creating a dedicated test suite (which could include exising tests) is
> way easier than forcing new constraints on all existing tests.

I think gz meant: any tests that just cannot pass when run from a
frozen bzr can easily skip. Most of them should not need to. Some
such were mentioned recently.

>
> And when I say dedicated test suite, it could be as simple as running:
>
>  selftest -s bt.test_installer
>
> And these tests could well use the feature you mentioned above to skip
> in the normal case.

That'd be good.

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Martin