On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Robin Dunn wrote:
Hi All,
Since my contract is now over I thought it would be a good idea to
make sure there is a record of how I've been doing the merges from
upstream wxWidgets into the wx that OSAF uses so somebody else would
be able to do it if needed. I wrote up the instructions for how to
do it about a year and a half ago and have been following those
directions since then. The instructions are in the OSAF wx SVN
repository and can be seen at http://viewcvs.osafoundation.org/wx-osaf/trunk/Readme-OSAF.txt
Current status: I did a merge last week using the then current wx
sources from the WX_2_8_BRANCH, but I didn't roll it over to
chandler because I was getting some seemingly random errors when
running the functional tests. (One of the recorded scripts would
fail sometimes on Windows, and would succeed sometimes.) This may
not be a real problem however because over the weekend I backed out
to the older wx and there were still some functional test failures
for me there too. Anyway, the status of the current merge is that
it has been done up to step 13 in the instructions so if you decide
to go with it you just need to make the change in external/wx/
Makefile and then in chandler/Makefile once the tboxes have built
the binary tarballs.
I was still getting functional test failures, like the ones you
describe, on some machines and not others. I narrowed down several of
the problems and they were all real bugs in Chandler caused by race
conditions. Not all the bugs are fixed, however. You might try
checking in your changes and watching the tinderboxes -- I suspect
that if you didn't introduce any new bugs these race condition bugs
might not manifest themselves on the tinderboxes because of the quirks
of timing on the tinderbox machines.
I'm still keeping some of the wx specific Chandler bugs in mind and
will work on them when I can. If solutions are found and fixed
upstream I'll let you know.
--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!
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