[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 13 20:41:45 CEST 2010
Bill Janssen wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
>> Bill Janssen 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.
>> It doesn't really make sense. It should skip the test, instead of
>> failing it. I.e. aborting the Python process is definitely not a good
>> response.
>
> Yes, you're right. It's a bug in the test.
No, I'd say it's even deeper, in the Tcl integration.
There shouldn't be a way to cause an interpreter abort, except by
calling os.abort().
Regards,
Martin
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