Commit a32206b3 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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Documented that the parallel test runner doesn't work on Windows.

parent 710b4a70

docs/ref/django-admin.txt

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    $ pip install tblib



This feature isn't available on Oracle.

This feature isn't available on Windows. It doesn't work with the Oracle

database backend either.



.. warning::

docs/releases/1.9.txt

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don't access the same resources. For instance, test cases that touch the

filesystem should create a temporary directory for their own use.



This option is enabled by default for Django's own test suite on database

backends that support it (this is all the built-in backends except for

Oracle).

This option is enabled by default for Django's own test suite provided:



- the OS supports it (all but Windows)

- the database backend supports it (all the built-in backends but Oracle)



Minor features

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tests/runtests.py

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def actual_test_processes(parallel):

    if parallel == 0:

        # On Python 3.4+: if multiprocessing.get_start_method() != 'fork':

        if not hasattr(os, 'fork'):

            return 1

        # This doesn't work before django.setup() on some databases.

        if all(conn.features.can_clone_databases for conn in connections.all()):

        elif all(conn.features.can_clone_databases for conn in connections.all()):

            return default_test_processes()

        else:

            return 1