Elaborate on why arm64 platform is skipped for failing test test

Co-authored-by: Joe Rickerby <joerick@mac.com>
2022-08-17 15:48:03 +02:00
parent dce8c221b7
commit 8d71ecace2
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ def test_failing_test(tmp_path):
                # problems with this, so let's check that.
                "CIBW_MANYLINUX_I686_IMAGE": "manylinux1",
                "CIBW_MANYLINUX_X86_64_IMAGE": "manylinux1",
-                # tests don't run on CPython 3.8 when running on macOS arm64
+                # CPython 3.8 when running on macOS arm64 is unusual. The build
+                # always runs in x86_64, so the arm64 tests are not run. See
+                # #1169 for reasons why. That means the build succeeds, which
+                # we don't want. So we skip that build.
                "CIBW_SKIP": "cp38-macosx_arm64",
            },
        )