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Mon Jun 21 23:57:04 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100851.html

On 21/06/2010 22:52, Michael Foord wrote:
> On 21/06/2010 22:36, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> Bill listed several other failures he saw on the buildbots and I see 
>>> the
>>> same set, plus test_posix.
>>
>> Still, the question would be whether any of these failures can manage 
>> to block a release. Are they regressions from 2.6?
>
> The test_posix failure is a regression from 2.6 (but it only shows up 
> on some machines - it is caused by a fairly braindead implementation 
> of a couple of posix apis by Apple apparently).
>
>     http://bugs.python.org/issue7900
>
> There are various patches available and a lot of work that has gone 
> into diagnosing it - but there was some disagreement on what is the 
> *best* way to fix it.
>
> Two of the other failures I'm pretty sure are problems in the test 
> suite rather than bugs (as Bill said) and I'm not sure about the 
> ctypes issue. Just starting a full build here.

Right now I'm *only* seeing these two failures on Mac OS X (10.6.4):

     test_posix test_urllib2_localnet

All the best,

Michael

>
> Michael
>> That would make them good candidates for release blockers. Except 
>> that I still would like to see commitment from somebody to fix them 
>> or else they can't block the release: if "we" don't mean that 
>> supporting a platform also means volunteering to fix bugs, then I 
>> guess "we" should stop declaring the
>> platform supported. Just wishing that it was supported actually 
>> doesn't make it so.
>>
>> If the test failure *isn't* a regression, I think it shouldn't block 
>> the release.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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