On 7/10/15, 18:34, "Monty Taylor" <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote:

>On 07/10/2015 07:19 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On 10 July 2015 at 01:59, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainb...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>> Or a database per python major version (or at least gracefully handle
>>>the incompatibility).
>> 
>> So that would partition the data, and the whole point of test
>> *repository* is that it builds a database across all your tests to
>> answer useful questions.
>
>Totally understand that.
>
>On the other hand ...
>
>a) is that setup/behavior common enough to be more important than:
>
>b) the dbm file format mess is both annoying and confusing
>
>I get the theory of why - but it's also a common thing that provides rage.

Just as an example, I went to fix a pypy error and was receiving an
exception about not being able to import _bsddb. The fix? Remove
.testrepository. I understand testrepository is meant to be a metatool,
but it provides very bizarre problems in some cases. I understand why we
use it, but the situation really need to improve the situation.


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