[Python-Dev] stabilizing builds (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at electricrain.com
Tue Jan 24 21:22:38 CET 2006

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:01:36PM -0800, Neal Norwitz wrote:

rather than later. There are a bunch of tests that are not stable. It would really help to get people knowledgeable about a particular subdomain to provide input into bugs/patches and produce patches too!

The areas that are known to have problems are listed here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildBot It would be nice to clean those issues up. Does anyone have some time to spend to resolve the issues with Berkeley DB? That's the one that annoys me most right now. I have a patch that fixes at least one of the problems, but no idea if it's the correct solution or not. http://python.org/sf/1407992

Nice! It does fix the associate test problem on BerkeleyDB 3.3-4.1 and 4.2-4.4 continue to pass. I committed it. Good to have tests passing again when using "old" but still common BerkeleyDBs.

* BSD DB 4.1 and 3.2 fail

Using BerkeleyDB 3.2 often segfaults for me; using 3.3 often hangs in the test suite. Both are so old I don't see much motivation to track the issues down.

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