[email protected] wrote:
> Python-2.6.4 compiles without error , but the test suite fails:
>
> ....edited out non failure tests
Well, welcome to the "free software development" world. When
I first started using Linux several years ago, I was apalled
at the lack of concern over compile warnings, and test suite
failures, coming from a background of telecom where we did
extensive tests, especially regression/unit and integration
tests (that is, to ensure that the entire "load" would work
together, as opposed to testing individual subsystems or
collections of related programs, what one might call a "package").
After that, we did still more in-house testing, followed by
"acceptance tests" on live customer sites, before roll out.
Anyway...
Since starting to use Linux for a while, I've come to the
conclusion that there is little or nothing one can do about
it, since that's the pervasive atmosphere, and I mostly just
shrug, and if it doesn't actually cause my hardware to catch
fire and burn to pieces (as one piece of software did once
long ago)[*], then I just go on. Trying to discuss it seems
pointless, since the people who are involved in the development
either don't see any benefit to pursuing such activities, or
are actively hostile to them.
When I was actively doing software development, my compiles
and assembles were without unexplained and deemed acceptable
warnings, [like "flow from one case: to another in a switch()
statement" when that was intended], and all my regression tests
were passed without any exceptions, and both integration
and compliance tests were all passed with no waivers.
I don't like it, but it's free of monetary cost, so I accept
it as it is, and live with it. The alternative is to write
my own operating system, and support applications.
[*] Once a piece of software did a direct program of my video
interface board to a frequency my monitor could not synch to,
and burnt up the flyback and deflection yoke. Modern monitors
are much less likely to suffer from that.
Mike
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