[Python-Dev] Test failures under Windows?

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:07 PM, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> writes:
>
>> Btw, I am working on finding out the test suite failures for
>> test_multiprocessing.
>
> This is all well and good, but I still haven't seen any plausible
> reason for not preventing these popups (in favor of stderr failures)
> during buildbot test runs?  I don't get it - it just seems a no
> brainer to help protect the Windows buildbots.  Surely there may be
> similar issues down the road that also introduce the potential for
> assertions?
>
> I guess I'll stop asking after this note, but can anyone give a final
> verdict on whether the older "-n" option can be restored to the
> buildbot test.bat (from the revision history I'm not actually sure it
> was intentionally removed in the first place)?  Unlike normal Windows
> popups I can't protect against it easily through local modifications
> to my build slave, since test.bat gets updated as part of the source
> tree.
>
> -- David
>

I guess I missed the multiprocessing part of this discussion, but in
any case, see bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue5619 - once Martin and
I review it, it should be in trunk and elsewhere as needed.

-jesse