[tahoe-dev] running unit tests without asking the user to first install Twisted

[zooko]

Dear Chris Galvan:

Thank you very much for the patches to Tahoe packaging.  While  
waiting for #505, I committed this small change [2901] to keep going  
instead of stopping with an error if trial can't be found at makefile  
time.  However, since Twisted Trial isn't actually installed on one  
of the buildslaves -- yukyuk [1] -- the tests currently don't run on  
yukyuk.

I have to concentrate on immutable file checker/verifier this week,  
but if you and Brian (or someone) are going to work on #505 then I  
will leave yukyuk like it is so that you can see that it turns green  
once a patch that fixes #505 is committed.

If you're not, then I'll install Twisted on yukyuk and remove the  
part of http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html  
that advises users to run the tests, for now.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/buildbot/builders/zooko%20yukyuk%20hardy

tickets mentioned in this e-mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/505 # wanted: a setuptools  
plugin to make unit tests be executed with trial instead of with pyunit
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/506 # don't attempt to find  
trial until twisted is installed

patches mentioned in this e-mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/2901

a.k.a.

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/changeset/ 
20080903171837-92b7f-2c2ffea600173ca7e3dd4c4ed17806882fdf3252