[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 13 16:43:49 CEST 2010


exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 03:17 am, janssen at parc.com wrote:
>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again.  It's failing on test_tk,
>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process,
>> and thus can't access the window server.  I should configure that out.
> 
> You can run it in an xvfb.

But that's beside the point! The slave configuration detected a bug in
Python, so rather than working around the bug by modifying the slave
configuration, the bug should get fixed.

Of course, the slave is then useless until somebody contributes such a fix.

Regards,
Martin


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