[Cython] failing memory view tests in Python 2.4/5

[mark florisson]

On 17 July 2012 12:12, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> mark florisson, 17.07.2012 12:15:
>> On 17 July 2012 09:58, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> mark florisson, 10.07.2012 11:20:
>>>> Perhaps we should run
>>>> the 2x tests from py27 down to 2.4. Tests in newer python's are less
>>>> likely to fail.
>>>
>>> Test failures are bad in general, though. Just because you hear about them
>>> a couple of minutes later doesn't mean that they are less important.
>>
>> If tests fail in a lower version and not a higher version it often
>> means an easy to fix version incompatibility
>
> And also the other way round, but that's usually more related to Py3 bugs.
>
>
>> (although sometimes,
>> especially with buffers and it's special casing, this is really not
>> true). But the point is you know whether something is broken in
>> general, or it's a version related thing, and that information in
>> itself is useful.
>
> We currently run the tests for Py2.[47] and Py3.[23] in parallel before all
> others. I think that should be enough to handle that case. However, if one
> of them fails, the tests against the remaining Python versions will not be
> triggered. I think it might be more helpful to always have all of them run,
> so that it's clearer which of the release series are affected (just 2.4? or
> 2.4 and 2.5, as in this case?)

Ah great, that's exactly what I had in mind :)

> Stefan
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