[Chandler-dev] New test running tool: rt.py

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:34 AM 4/3/2007 -0400, Mike Taylor wrote:

>On Apr 2, 2007 PJE wrote:
>
>> >The reason we set rt.py to use the system python is so that the test
>> >running tool is not using the code that it is testing (and to not have to
>> >have two copies of Chandler Python installed.)
>>
>>I don't understand.  Why would two copies of Python be necessary to run
>>Python in a subprocess?
>
>It's not of course - what I'm referring to is that you should not be using 
>the same binary to run the test runner as you are testing.  It's probably 
>a QA/Build quirk that few others would even worry about.

Okay, well can we at least defer the removal of do_tests until after the 
new script can be run with Chandler's Python on all platforms?  At this 
point, I haven't had a chance to find out whether there are any other 
issues with the new script (i.e. how it interacts, or doesn't, with pdb, 
cygterm, redirection through "less", etc.)