On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Neal Norwitz wrote: > I just checked in a change to disable testing 2 uuid functions > (_ifconfig_get_node and unixdll_getnode) that fail on many platforms. > Here's the message: > > """ > Disable these tests until they are reliable across platforms. These > problems may mask more important, real problems. > > One or both methods are known to fail on: Solaris, OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu. > They pass on Windows and some Linux boxes. > """
_ifconfig_get_node() should work on all Linuxes. (Thanks for fixing it to work on more types of Unix.) It's okay for unixdll_getnode to fail when the necessary shared library is not available. Ideally, test_uuid should serve as a record of which platforms we expect these routines to work on. The uuid module as a whole isn't broken if one of these routines fails; it just means that we don't have complete platform coverage and/or test_uuid has inaccurate expectations of which routines work on which platforms. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
