[TIP] Fail-fast testing?

[Michael Foord]

On 05/03/2010 22:30, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be really nice to have the ctrl-c handling default to on, 
>> but perhaps an easy way of handling this is just have it default to off.
>
> It seems like tests that want to trap Ctrl-C are probably in the 
> minority of the set of tests that would use the test framework, so 
> defaulting to "on" with a way to control the setting should be safe 
> enough.
>
Yeah, the only danger is the few tests that do strange things (that used 
to work) will then be broken under new versions of unittest.

Apparently the bazaar tests *don't* install a signal handler, but do 
test that they respond to ctrl-c by sending SIGINT. Putting a handler in 
by default would then break those tests. Sounds like it has to be off by 
default.

Michael

> Doug


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