status update

Here's a description of known problems/issues in the snake farm
and what's happening to solve them.

Solaris:
        Tests aren't running on Solaris due to the tests hanging.
        This problem should now be fixed.  The tests should no
        longer hang.  They may be two failures.  I have seen
        test_logging fail intermitantly.  I believe this is
        a test problem that has nothing to due with Solaris.
        test_pty fails.  I believe this can be fixed with
        http://python.org/sf/671384  However, Martin von Loewis
        is probably the best person to review this patch and
        he is on vacation.

        Tests should be now be re-enabled.

HP-UX:
        Tests are failing on HP-UX due to a similar problem as
        Solaris. The same should fix the test_pty problem on HP-UX.

        I believe the tests are disabled, at least on taylor.
        Once the patch is checked in, all HP-UX machines should
        run the tests.

AIX:
        No change.  There is an unknown problem when importing a
        module from a dynamic library (.so).  I'm stuck, any help
        would be appreciated.

moghedien:
        Problem with the C++ compiler during configuration.
        Unknown cause, I haven't looked into this.

asmodean:
        There is a problem with optimization in the C compiler.
        Optimization has been turned off when building the
        interpreter, however, it also needs to be turned off when
        building the shared libraries.  Anders, can you look into
        this?

That's all I know of.  

I'd like to point out that even though the snake-farm is not yet
stable, about 5 bugs have been specifically found by the snake-farm.

Neal