Remove crufty, ignored test.

conftest.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 
 collect_ignore = [
     'tests/manual_test.py',
-    'tests/test_pypi.py',
     'pavement.py',
     'setuptools/tests/mod_with_constant.py',
 ]

tests/test_pypi.py

-import os
-import subprocess
-
-import virtualenv
-from setuptools.extern.six.moves import http_client
-from setuptools.extern.six.moves import xmlrpc_client
-
-TOP = 200
-PYPI_HOSTNAME = 'pypi.python.org'
-
-
-def rpc_pypi(method, *args):
-    """Call an XML-RPC method on the Pypi server."""
-    conn = http_client.HTTPSConnection(PYPI_HOSTNAME)
-    headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/xml'}
-    payload = xmlrpc_client.dumps(args, method)
-
-    conn.request("POST", "/pypi", payload, headers)
-    response = conn.getresponse()
-    if response.status == 200:
-        result = xmlrpc_client.loads(response.read())[0][0]
-        return result
-    else:
-        raise RuntimeError("Unable to download the list of top "
-                           "packages from Pypi.")
-
-
-def get_top_packages(limit):
-    """Collect the name of the top packages on Pypi."""
-    packages = rpc_pypi('top_packages')
-    return packages[:limit]
-
-
-def _package_install(package_name, tmp_dir=None, local_setuptools=True):
-    """Try to install a package and return the exit status.
-
-    This function creates a virtual environment, install setuptools using pip
-    and then install the required package. If local_setuptools is True, it
-    will install the local version of setuptools.
-    """
-    package_dir = os.path.join(tmp_dir, "test_%s" % package_name)
-    if not local_setuptools:
-        package_dir = package_dir + "_baseline"
-
-    virtualenv.create_environment(package_dir)
-
-    pip_path = os.path.join(package_dir, "bin", "pip")
-    if local_setuptools:
-        subprocess.check_call([pip_path, "install", "."])
-    returncode = subprocess.call([pip_path, "install", package_name])
-    return returncode
-
-
-def test_package_install(package_name, tmpdir):
-    """Test to verify the outcome of installing a package.
-
-    This test compare that the return code when installing a package is the
-    same as with the current stable version of setuptools.
-    """
-    new_exit_status = _package_install(package_name, tmp_dir=str(tmpdir))
-    if new_exit_status:
-        print("Installation failed, testing against stable setuptools",
-              package_name)
-        old_exit_status = _package_install(package_name, tmp_dir=str(tmpdir),
-                                           local_setuptools=False)
-        assert new_exit_status == old_exit_status
-
-
-def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
-    """Generator function for test_package_install.
-
-    This function will generate calls to test_package_install. If a package
-    list has been specified on the command line, it will be used. Otherwise,
-    Pypi will be queried to get the current list of top packages.
-    """
-    if "package_name" in metafunc.fixturenames:
-        if not metafunc.config.option.package_name:
-            packages = get_top_packages(TOP)
-            packages = [name for name, downloads in packages]
-        else:
-            packages = metafunc.config.option.package_name
-        metafunc.parametrize("package_name", packages)