[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1 (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Sep 26 12:59:28 EDT 2003

"Jason R. Mastaler" wrote There's a workaround, but the problem is that I think I'll be the one bearing the brunt of this bug for who knows how long. I've gotten about a half dozen problem reports about it already on the TMDA lists. TMDA uses os.fsync() in its mbox and Maildir delivery code, so practically every user will find their TMDA broken as soon as they install or upgrade to 2.3.1. Since Python point releases are usually so solid, they don't consider it might be a bug in the interpreter, and assume it's a TMDA bug. TMDA is just one example. Repeat for the other packages out there which rely on os.fsync().

Hm. I ran the Zope2, Zope3, and Twisted test suites against the release build before the release. I'm open to additional suggestions (I just grabbed tmda, but it doesn't have a test suite). In this case, the problem hopefully would've been picked up with a release candidate, but I'm also happy to add additional slabs of test suites to run against code before it's released...

Anthony

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