Re: Zope Tests: 55 OK, 16 Failed, 3 Unknown

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
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On 09/26/2010 11:52 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:05:03AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> On 09/26/2010 07:58 AM, Zope Tests Summarizer wrote:
>>
>>> Subject: FAILED : Zope Buildbot / ztk slave-ubuntu64
>>> From: jdriessen at thehealthagency.com
>>> Date: Sat Sep 25 09:57:03 EDT 2010
>>> URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-September/020550.html
>>
>> This failure is due to 'test-ztk' timing out.  I'm willing to bet that
>> the 'zope.testrunner' doctests which attempt to test use of pdb are to
>> blame:  they cause the tests to hang on my machine, anyway.
> 
> I can reproduce that in r116884, but it appears to be fixed in the
> latest revision (116919), which bumped zope.testing to 3.10.0.
> 
>> I would favor commenting out those tests, or even removing them
>> altogether.  I don't think the "feature" is worth any price at all in
>> terms of the overally ecosystem.
> 
> Being able to use pdb to debug doctests is occasionally valuable.

I don't mind that such debugging is possible: I do mind very much having
a meta-doctest which tries to demonstrate that feature cause runs of the
test suite to hang.

Those-who-try-to-lift-themselves-by-their-boostraps-kiss-lots-of-pavement'ly,


Tres.
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