Add a module-level BackendStatus(IntEnum) with READY=0 to replace magic
0 comparisons. Extend BottleBackend.status() with a quiet parameter:
quiet=False (default) prints diagnostics; quiet=True returns the code
silently for programmatic checks.
Add is_backend_available() (cheap PATH check, alias for has_backend) and
is_backend_ready(name, *, quiet=False) (full status() check) to the
backend package for callers that need to distinguish availability from
readiness.
Update tests/_backend.py guards to use is_backend_ready(quiet=False) so
diagnostic output is printed during test discovery, giving the operator a
concrete reason for each skip rather than a bare "prerequisites
unavailable" message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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