Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Janssen
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Bill: could you please file an issue for this in the python tracker, http://bugs.python.org/issue8716 > it should be possible to add a workaround for this to the Tkinter > extension. That would be good. Bill ___ Python-Dev m

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Yes thanks this is what I was thinking "set up a build slave for Python > testing", No reason this would not work on a leopard 10.6 machine? In my experience, it is mandatory that the slave admin has really good understanding of Python, and of the operating system that the slave runs on. Otherwi

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-14 Thread Vincent Davis
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > Vincent Davis wrote: > > > Not to interrupt you you conversation but I am interested in setting > > up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise > > that is different from that of a linux machine? Any advise woul

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Janssen
Vincent Davis wrote: > Not to interrupt you you conversation but I am interested in setting > up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise > that is different from that of a linux machine? Any advise would be > appreciated. Assuming you mean "set up a build slave for

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Vincent Davis wrote: > Not to interrupt you you conversation but I am interested in setting > up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise > that is different from that of a linux machine? Any advise would be > appreciated. This is a little bit out of context: what exac

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Vincent Davis
Not to interrupt you you conversation but I am interested in setting up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise that is different from that of a linux machine? Any advise would be appreciated. Thanks Vincent On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Mar

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, >>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, >>> and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. >>> >>> I'm looking for documentation on how to co

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Bill Janssen
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bill Janssen wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > >> Bill Janssen wrote: > >>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > >>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, > >>> and thus can't access the window

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Bill Janssen
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bill Janssen wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > >> Bill Janssen wrote: > >>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > >>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, > >>> and thus can't access the window

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> This is running /usr/bin/python in a session as a user that doesn't > have access to the GUI. The text above says that there is an > uncaught ObjC exception, caused by the lack of a connection to the > window server. Tk should have converted that to its own style of > errors but didn't. That m

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 13 May, 2010, at 20:41, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bill Janssen wrote: >> Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> >>> Bill Janssen wrote: I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, and thus can

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Bill Janssen wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> Bill Janssen wrote: >>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, >>> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, >>> and thus can't access the window server. >> It doesn't really make sense

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Bill Janssen
exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 03:17 am, jans...@parc.com wrote: > >I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > > which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted > > process, > >and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On May 13, 2010, at 9:41 AM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 03:17 am, jans...@parc.com wrote: >> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, >> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, >> and thus can't access the window server. I

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Bill Janssen
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Bill Janssen wrote: > > I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > > which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, > > and thus can't access the window server. > > It doesn't really make sense. It should skip the te

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> (Having said that, a similar situation with my buildslave prompted me > to spend the time fixing the bug so I didn't have to keep restarting > the slave, so maybe it's a good thing after all :-)) Indeed. More generally, I'd question the point of automated testing if people try to work around ser

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Moore
On 13 May 2010 15:43, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Of course, the slave is then useless until somebody contributes such a fix. That's the sad part. If there was a means of temporarily marking the test on a particular slave as a known issue, it would avoid a single bug rendering a buildslave useless

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > On 03:17 am, jans...@parc.com wrote: >> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, >> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, >> and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, >> which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, >> and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. >> >> I'm looking for documentation on how to configure the build slave so >

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread exarkun
On 03:17 am, jans...@parc.com wrote: I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. You can run it in an xvfb. Jean-Paul

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Bill Janssen wrote: > I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, > and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. > > I'm looking for documentation on how to configure the

Re: [Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Bill Janssen wrote: > I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, > which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, > and thus can't access the window server. It doesn't really make sense. It should skip the test, instead of failing it. I.e. abort

[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

2010-05-12 Thread Bill Janssen
I've got parc-tiger-1 up and running again. It's failing on test_tk, which makes sense, because it's running as a background twisted process, and thus can't access the window server. I should configure that out. I'm looking for documentation on how to configure the build slave so that it skips t