On Jan 10, 2012 2:59 PM, "Jeroen Demeyer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who knows about pexpect and Sage's use of it? I certainly don't. I > think a "big project" to review/refactor the pexpect interfaces is in order. >
I would say that me and Mike Hansen both know it very well. From my perspective, it's not that complicated and I don't think it needs to be refactored. Using hg blame should reveal who else knows the code... > Several doctests involving pexpect are very flaky and cause regular > non-reproducible failures. My impression is also that they are becoming > more and more common (but that could be subjective due to the fact that > we see less other failures). > > I am in particular struggling with #12221: somehow #11073 (remove the > spkg/base repo) causes a lot of failures in the gp pexpect interface. I > have been looking at this for days but don't understand what is going > on. The fact that the failures are non-reproducible makes debugging a > lot harder. I should take a look... > > So any help (or pointers to help) is appreciated, > Jeroen. > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
