[Python-Dev] memory leaks in 2.2 (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:40:22 +0100

It's hard. Bugzilla has some good features there w.r.t. "unverified" vs. "new" vs. "accepted" and "fixed" vs "resolved", QA contacts, keyword handling for milestone/release targets, etc. I'm not sure how the SF bugtracker compares in practice but from a distance it seems a little weak there.

SF recommends to use the Group for "unsupported", "unverified". Unfortunately, the filtering capabilities leave a lot of wishes.

- popen on Posix has a nasty failure mode if the cmd argument is Unicode (see the first line in Popen3.runchild for a hint =)]

You mean,

def _run_child(self, cmd):
    if isinstance(cmd, types.StringTypes):
        cmd = ['/bin/sh', '-c', cmd]

:-? Fixed since 2001/12/02.

It would be a good way for someone who'se 'on the periphery' to get more deeply involved and learn a lot.

This is free software. Most contributors work on it for fun, or because they need it for their job.

Posting "volunteers needed" may be a good idea, but then, perhaps not so shortly before 2.2.

Regards, Martin