Re: [Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input

2006-03-30 Thread Thomas Heller
Neal Norwitz wrote: These issues are on HEAD. There might be some others I missed. With cc there are at least 2 issues: * test_file causes interpreter exit due to sys.stdin.seek(-1) * test_pty fails apparently due to whitespace differences

Re: [Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input

2006-03-30 Thread Tim Peters
Disabling a test on a platform is usually a bad thing, overall. The purpose of the test suite isn't to get a lot of green buildbot boxes 0.5 wink, it's to determine whether Python works as expected. If a platform bug causes some test to fail, then that test _should_ fail on that platform --

Re: [Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input

2006-03-30 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 3/30/06, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disabling a test on a platform is usually a bad thing, overall. The Agreed. purpose of the test suite isn't to get a lot of green buildbot boxes 0.5 wink, it's to determine whether Python works as expected. If a platform bug causes some test

[Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input

2006-03-29 Thread Neal Norwitz
These issues are on HEAD. There might be some others I missed. With cc there are at least 2 issues: * test_file causes interpreter exit due to sys.stdin.seek(-1) * test_pty fails apparently due to whitespace differences

Re: [Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input

2006-03-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Neal Norwitz wrote: The question is how to fix these. test_float and test_struct fail due to a Floating Point Exception signal (SIGFPE). I would hope that there is some way to control the floating point error mode of the CPU (*). Changing it would be one option; Tim hopefully can tell us