[Python-Dev] Branches in which to fix the SSL tests

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 at 03:37 Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 January 2016 at 09:57, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> > As mentioned on the issue tracker I'm not convinced that your
> > patch is a good solution going forward. Rather than basing
> > the test on svn.python.org, which can change again in the
> > future, we should use the domain we have specifically
> > reserved for stdlib tests, namely pythontest.net and get this
> > set up in a way so that we can run SSL tests again.
>
> I agree my first patch is not really sustainable; I only thought of it
> as a temporary workaround.
>
> If we want to change to pythontest.net, it seems there is already an
> SSL certificate set up with https://self-signed.pythontest.net,
> already used by other tests. If people want, I should be able to make
> a straightforward patch to switch to that.
>
> But I would prefer to go with something like my newer
> local-server.v2.patch, which essentially switches to a local server
> run for the duration of each test. It is just a question of finding
> someone to review my changes.
>

I say update bugfix branches with simple pythontest.net and consider
updating default w/ your local server solution as there we can watch the
tests to make sure the test is stable, etc.

-Brett


>
> > Regarding which branches to apply the final fix, others have
> > already chimed in. Essentially, any branch which we'll need
> > to run tests on in the foreseeable future will need to be fixed
>
> Yes, it seems that is a reasonable conclusion. In this case that would
> indeed mean all branches including 3.2. Thanks everyone for the input.
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