On 22 Jul, 2013, at 7:35, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article <51ecae41.5060...@udel.edu>, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> > wrote: >> > > This is exactly what Issue8716 was about. The buildbot has no way of > knowing ahead of time whether a test will cause a crash or not. Yes, Tk > should not crash but it does in some cases. Speaking of #8716, that > reminds me that there is an open issue with it (documented in > Issue17496). There is the start of a patch there to use a more general > approach to testing for a working Tk that might be applicable on all > platforms.
Issue17496 contains a patch that might fix the crashing problem for OSX (and possibly other Unix-y platforms). I haven't been able to test this in an environment that's simular enough to the buildbots (that is, a system where the user running the test does not have GUI access). That patch starts wish (the TCL shell) in a subprocess, and skips tests when that doesn't work (on OSX that would be because Tk crashed). Ronald _______________________________________________ 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
