Ah, I had forgotten about your bug report with all the other things I have going on right now. I'll try to make a real note about it so I don't forget again! I'll take a very close look at these failures and see what I can do. I suspect I (or nine, whenever he's around again) will need access to a PPC box eventually. Needless to say, I won't merge this branch now, with these failures left unresolved.
Thanks. --Andrew Whitworth On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:53 AM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/7/12 8:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth wrote: >> >> I am doing final testing on the threads branch today and I would like >> to get it merged into master soon. I've built and tested Parrot, >> Winxed, Rosella, NQP and am currently in the middle of testing Rakudo. >> If all goes well, and if there are no complaints, I would like to >> merge this branch before the end of the weekend, today preferrably. >> > > Andrew, > > I registered a complaint about the threads branch several weeks ago. In > response to a #parrot privmsg from you, I sent you email on June 28 which > included the following: > > "When I tested the threads branch on Darwin/PPC, there was a stretch of > about 8 tests in one file which caused 'make test' to grind to an absolute > halt. My laptop did not freeze, but 'make test' just silently stopped. > > I take this to be a message from the canary in the coal mine. I am much > more skeptical of the threads branch than I am of, say, your io_cleanup1 > branch. I would be very reluctant to see it merged into master because it > would be another step down the road to Parrot's becoming a > "runs-on-any-OS-provided-that-OS-is-Linux" application." > > > >> Please Please PLEASE let me know if anybody would like more time to do >> more vigorous testing of any variety. >> > > I note that since June 28 there has been only one commit to the threads > branch and I never got a response to that email. I would infer from this > that the branch is relatively unchanged over the past month. Hence, I > suspect that when I build and test this branch -- which I am trying now -- > the results will not be good. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
