[BioPython] Removing the unit test GUI?

[Peter]

Hello all,

I wanted to do a quick survey of opinion about the Biopython test
suite and its interface.

Those of you who have ever installed Biopython from source may have
tried running the unit tests too.  You do this by changing to the
Tests subdirectory, and then running the run_tests.py script.
Currently by default this will show a GUI.  However, from the
developer's point of view the unit tests are almost always run at the
command line with:

python run_tests.py --no-gui

It would let us simplify the test harness if we got rid of the GUI,
and it would make life very slightly easier for people running the
tests at the command line.  But would anyone be upset at the loss of
the test GUI?

So - have any of you ever run the unit tests?  Did you use the GUI or
the command line?  Would you prefer the GUI to remain?

Thanks

Peter

P.S. See also bug 2525
http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2525