[Python-Dev] any opinion on 'make quicktest'?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "FLD" == Fred L Drake, <fdrake@acm.org> writes:

  >> + QUICKTESTOPTS= $(TESTOPTS) -x test_thread test_signal
  >>   test_strftime \
  >> + test_unicodedata test_re test_sre test_select test_poll
  >> + quicktest: all platform
  >> + -rm -f $(srcdir)/Lib/test/*.py[co]
  >> + -PYTHONPATH= $(TESTPYTHON) $(TESTPROG) $(QUICKTESTOPTS)
  >> + PYTHONPATH= $(TESTPYTHON) $(TESTPROG) $(QUICKTESTOPTS)

  FLD> In fact, for this, I'd only run the test once and would skip the
  FLD> "rm" command as well.  I usually just run the regression test
  FLD> once (but with all modules, to avoid the extra typing).

Actually, I think the rm is important.  I've spent most of the last
month running make test to check the compiler.

Jeremy