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| author | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com> | 2012-03-04 14:09:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> | 2012-03-04 12:59:21 -0800 |
| commit | 7961e1f56ec9754cafcb9a67445b01d47d1b1676 (patch) | |
| tree | ab2bf9cae04603618061cc7a8fa6a924eaca7d8e /doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt | |
| parent | e692a7579b89bf43e8456f418e6b625a4e4a4233 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-7961e1f56ec9754cafcb9a67445b01d47d1b1676.tar.gz | |
TST: add "raise on warning" behavior to NoseTester constructor.
Also document that behavior has to be switched for a release, and remove
comments on turning on deprecation warnings that don't apply anymore.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt index c31201801..d0b16a9c2 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt +++ b/doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst.txt @@ -187,6 +187,17 @@ Check the buildbot ------------------ The buildbot is located at `<http://buildbot.scipy.org/>`_. +Handle test warnings +-------------------- +The default behavior of the test suite in the master branch is to report errors +for DeprecationWarnings and RuntimeWarnings that are issued. For a released +version this is not desired. Therefore any known warnings should be solved or +explicitly silenced before making the release branch, then when the branch is +made, the default behavior should be switched to not raise errors. This is +done in the constructor of the NoseTester class in numpy/testing/nosetester.py, +by replacing ``raise_warnings=(DeprecationWarning, RuntimeWarning)`` with +``raise_warnings=()``. + Make sure current trunk builds a package correctly -------------------------------------------------- :: |