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

[Vincent Davis]

Not to interrupt you  you conversation but I am interested in setting
up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise
that is different from that of a linux machine?  Any advise would be
appreciated.
Thanks
Vincent


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis 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.
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for documentation on how to configure the build slave so
>>>> that it skips this test.
>>> It may be better to try to detect the "no window server" case and skip
>>> it in the test itself rather than in the build slave configuration.
>>
>> Even better would be if Python wouldn't crash when you try to run Tk
>> commands without a window server. Instead of aborting Python, that
>> should raise an exception (which can then be detected as a test skip).
>
> Yes, when I commented I didn't realise that "failing" in this case
> actually meant "crashing" :P
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
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