On Oct 21, 2010, at 06:35 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >* Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>, 2010-10-20, 19:30: >>We need to check both build and installation (i.e. for pure Python package >s) >>compatibility for 2.7. > >What is so special about pure-Python packages? I mistyped. I meant to say that Python file compatibility cannot be fully determined until byte-compilation time, which happens at installation. That is, unless the package has a test suite that runs at build time and fully touches all .py files. That doesn't even address correctness against Python 2.7, which is much harder. That's one reason why I think all packages should have test suites and all test suites should be run at build time - *and* the build should fail if the test suite fails (something I'm not sure happens all the time). -Barry
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