[TIP] Fail-fast testing?

[Doug Hellmann]

On Mar 5, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

> 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.

Meh.  Upgrading libraries requires changes, especially when new  
features are involved.  It's up to you, but I'm unconvinced.

Doug