[Python-Dev] Progress on switching Windows build to Berkeley DB 4.7.25...

[Trent Nelson]

Hi all,

Jesus, apologies that this has taken so long for me to get back to, I've been completely and utterly swamped with client work the past few weeks.  However, thanks to a couple of hours spare at Detroit airport yesterday, I was finally able to make some progress on updating the Windows Berkeley DB build to 4.7.25.  I've checked in the work I've done so far to branches/tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade.  One thing I wanted to double check with you is the following change:

Modified: python/branches/tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade/Lib/bsddb/test/test_replication.py
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--- python/branches/tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade/Lib/bsddb/test/test_replication.py   (original)
+++ python/branches/tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade/Lib/bsddb/test/test_replication.py   Wed Jun 18 06:13:44 2008
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
         # The timeout is necessary in BDB 4.5, since DB_EVENT_REP_STARTUPDONE
         # is not generated if the master has no new transactions.
         # This is solved in BDB 4.6 (#15542).
-        timeout = time.time()+2
+        timeout = time.time()+10
         while (time.time()<timeout) and not (self.confirmed_master and self.client_startupdone) :
             time.sleep(0.02)
         if db.version() >= (4,6) :

Basically, when using +2, the test failed every so often when running the entire test_bsddb3 suite.  I picked 10 arbitrarily; it improves things, but it's still not 100%, I still encounter the following failure every so often:

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ERROR: test01_basic_replication (bsddb.test.test_replication.DBReplicationManager)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "s:\src\svn+ssh\pythondev at svn.python.org\python\branches\tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade\lib\bsddb\test\test_replication.py", line 101, in setUp
    self.assertTrue(time.time()<timeout)
AssertionError

Can you comment on this?

Apart from this small issue, the other 311 tests pass on x86 and x64 with flying colours, so nice work, whatever you've been doing ;-)


Regards,

        Trent.