On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > * Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz>, 2010-12-09, 15:23: >>> >>> Sympy comes with a test suite, so it would be nice if it could be >>> run at build time, preferably with all supported Python versions. >> >> It takes several minutes to run. Are you sure it's a good idea? > > Absolutely sure. > >> What happens if some little test fails? > > Somebody fixes either the test, or the offending code, or temporarily > disables the test. Easy. > >> Is it better to have 99% working package, or not a package at all? > > It's not like anybody is going to kick a package out of archive just because > it FTBFS. :) > > Think of running tests at build time like an investment in quality > assurance.
Sounds good to me. Let's do that. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
