[PATCH] Remove selftest.py and related modules

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Aug 31 10:42:41 UTC 2016


Looks good to me. FWIW I'm unlikely to get back to this any time soon.

On 31 August 2016 04:23:30 BST, Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>hi Jelmer and samba-technical,
>
>The Python version of selftest doesn't work and there seems to be no
>chance of it working soon. There is no urgent need for it. All it does
>is sit around and make Samba testing look even more complicated than
>it really is. To make things slightly worse, some of the functions
>defined in the selftest python modules have been copied out into
>actually used code like selftest/subunithelper.py with subtle
>modifications to their signatures and implementations, meaning `git
>grep` and the like can catch unwary visitors.
>
>So here is a proposal to remove it. What do you think?
>
>cheers,
>Douglas


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