[Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

[Curt Hagenlocher]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:
>
>> These issues should be resolved in the py3k branch, but it will need
>> porting to 2.6.  Dialogue boxes are annoying, but do they pop up if
>> you run your buildslave as a service without access to the console?
>
> Not sure what the MSVC++ runtime does with assertion dialogs if run
> without interactive access (they aren't console messages, but UI dialog
> popups).

At least at some point in the past, it didn't check to see if there
was an attached window station.  But the dialog can be disabled in
debug mode by using the _set_error_mode function.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sas1dkb2(VS.71).aspx)

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Curt Hagenlocher
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