Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:

> I can change it to 'required' and 'optional'.
>
> As for Antoine's comment, do you have another suggestion? I realize it
> isn't necessarily easier per se to manage these lists than the
> 'expected' list, but what would you rather have happen?
> Simply say tests are skipped because they were not imported and assume
> people pay enough attention to realize that some compilation error
> occurred for the modules?

Well, "make" clearly tells you which modules couldn't be built at the
end. Many people are already concerned enough by that message :)

Perhaps we can keep required/optional for core things like "posix" or
"winreg". But failing the test suite because ctypes doesn't compile on a
platform is IMO overblown. Especially given that we also go out of our
way to make the test suite pass successfully when e.g. zlib or threads
are unavailable (or at least Ezio did at one point).