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

[Bill Janssen]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> 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().

Yes, I agree.  It's an undesirable design bug in the Apple OS, IMO.
When some Apple libraries ask for some things that they're not allowed
to have, the library calls abort() instead of signalling an error.

Google for "FAILED TO GET ASN FROM CORESERVICES" sometime.

Bill