[Python-Dev] status of development documentation (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Dec 24 12:03:58 CET 2005

Neal Norwitz wrote:

On 12/23/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

http://docs.python.org/dev/results/ Wow! You get no test failures! I guess nobody tests on Windows anymore. I've been getting test failures for months, and just Hmmm, I thought others were running the tests on Windows too. There was one report on Nov 22 about running Purify on Windows 2k (subject: ast status, memory leaks, etc). He had problems with a stack overflow in testcompile. He was going to disable the test and re-run. I never heard back though. Based on that info, I would guess that testbuiltin was working on Win 2k on Nov 22. _assumed this was known damage everywhere so was waiting for someone else to fix it ;-) (A parenthentical question: is there a reason you don't pass -uall to regrtest.py?) [...] I suppose this might be evidence in support of the arguments for trying to make Python compile on Windows under an open-source toolset.

The reason I don't test under Windows is because I can't build under Windows, so I only run Python installed from packaged installers.

Alternatively, is there any mileage in trying to either get Sourceforge to provide Windows machines in the compile farm, or get Microsoft to provide more software fee to Windows testers?

regards Steve

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