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@@ -26,6 +26,19 @@ pym/portage/tests/cache/flat_hash/test_foo.py and you would put "cache/flat_hash" into the testDirs variable in __init__.py. + +Skipping +-------- + +Please use the portage.tests.* classes as they support throwing a SkipException for +tests that are known to fail. Normally one uses testing to do Test Driven Development +(TDD); however we do not do that here. Therefore there are times when legitimate tests +exist but fail due to code in trunk. We would still like the suite to pass in some instances +because the suite is built around two things, testing functionality in the current code as +well as poking holes in the current code (isvalidatom is an example). So sometimes we desire +a test to point out that "this needs fixing" but it doesn't affect portage's overall +functionality. You should raise portage.tests.SkipException in that case. + emerge ------ |