[py-dev] showing tracebacks / failure handling (was: Re: [arigo at codespeak.net: [py-svn] r57790 - in py/trunk/py: code test test/report test/report/testing]

[holger krekel]

Hi Armin,

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 19:04 +0200, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:33:46PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> > in any case i'd be grateful if you put/copied your hacks
> > around py.test to directories in contrib (maybe with at 
> > least one functional test)  so that it'seasier to work
> > toegether and ensure that things work after refactorings. 
> 
> My conftest monkey-patches completely internal details around, so
> keeping it working would just prevent any refactoring.  I'm ok with
> having to throw my conftest mostly away and start again from scratch
> after a big refactoring.

well, i regard your rxvt and particularly your htmlconftest
hacks as valid extensions and would like to improve py.test
such that you do not need to patch internal details.  

holger