Scott Dial wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > > I was indulging in a bit of googling of my name and ran across this blog > post from months back: > > http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2007/11/sprint-discussions-releases-testing.html > > """ > As you can see, we are lacking in the Windows testing area, which is an > even worse problem because none of the currently active developers has > Windows as his primary OS. We should improve this by finding a Windows > machine where the tests are run nightly and where we can log in to try > bug-fixes quickly. The latter bit is important, we had a nightly windows > test run before (thanks to Scott Dial) but it didn't help, because even > if you tried to fix a bug you would have to wait until the next night to > see whether it worked. > """ > > Oddly enough, I came to this conclusion as well, but at the time I > withdrew my box because some serious problems developed with PyPy on > Win32 that made it impractical to continue to run the test suite. Early > this February I took some time to try and run the test suite again (same > problems exist as they did almost a year ago). > > However, this time, I set it up on a VMWare instance on a Linux server. > If someone would be interested in having access to that VMWare instance, > then I would be willing to provide the login information. Alternatively, > I might be able to invest some time in solving the bugs, but I'm not > sure. In the past, I got the impression that the development team was > indifferent to Win32 support and was not interested in being an advocate. > > -Scott >
Out of interest what is broken on the windows testing front ? _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
