tests/README
author Volker.Kleinfeld@gmx.de
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:25:14 -0700
changeset 1283 f5faab34f32e
parent 814 0902ffece4b4
child 1933 7544700fd931
permissions -rw-r--r--
Support for the distutils extention 'py2exe' added. Description: - If the py2exe distutils extention is installed this patch allows building standalone exe for windows - example: > python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 py2exe - The 'out of the box' py2exe is not able to resolve the dependencies due to 'demandload'. A new helper module of scanning the mercurial package has been added. Changed: - setup.py: importing py2exe and sub classing its command class to fetch the build directory and insert the needed includes - packagescan.py: new helper module added, that scans the distutil build directory for modules to be included.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
./run-tests

This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes
them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is
run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete.

A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output
matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in
test-<x>.err.

There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when
writing tests:

- hg commit and hg up -m want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge)

- changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make
  things like hg history output change

  use commit -m "test" -u test -d "0 0"

- diff will show the current time

  use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\) [a-zA-Z0-9_/.-]*\).*/\1/" to strip
  dates