[Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:52, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:53 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> When Tim Peters added it, he wanted it to tell him whether he did the
>> Windows build correctly, INCLUDING ALL OPTIONAL PACKAGES that can
>> possibly work on Windows. If you try to generalize this beyond Windows,
>> then the only skips that are expected are the ones for tests that
>> absolutely cannot work on the platform - i.e. Unix tests on Windows,
>> and Windows tests on Unix. Otherwise, if you can get it to pass by
>> installing additional software, Tim did *not* mean this to be an
>> expected skip.
>
> Note that it works this way on Linux as well. On Kubuntu (for example)
> you need another half dozen or so additional *-dev packages installed
> to avoid unexpected test skips.

So it isn't that it's "unexpected", it's that a dependency is missing.
So it seems the terminology needs to get tweaked.