TEST_DATA_DIR for out-of-tree builds

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#63,944 opened on Nov 24, 2013 5 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: build-system, testing-qa

Research direction

Start with BPO issue 19745 and the migrated issue metadata; no files, tests, or entry points are named. Trace how test data is located for out-of-tree builds, and consider the work complete when TEST_DATA_DIR behavior is implemented and covered by relevant tests.

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Description

build tests type-bug

BPO	19745
Nosy	@tiran, @iritkatriel

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2013-11-24.02:40:50.173>
labels = ['type-bug', 'tests']
title = 'TEST_DATA_DIR for out-of-tree builds'
updated_at = <Date 2021-12-07.16:25:34.093>
user = 'https://github.com/tiran'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2021-12-07.16:25:34.093>
actor = 'iritkatriel'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Tests']
creation = <Date 2013-11-24.02:40:50.173>
creator = 'christian.heimes'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 19745
keywords = []
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['204166', '228404', '407948']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['christian.heimes', 'iritkatriel']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'low'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue19745'
versions = ['Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5']

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