[ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Thomas Lotze
Tim Peters wrote: I'm the closest thing to a ZODB maintainer there is, and I won't object ;-) Go for it! OK. Right now I have the problem of getting the tests to pass before I start changing things. Doing just as README.txt says (python2.4 setup.py build, then python2.4 test.py) earns me

RE: [ZODB-Dev] Migration of obsolete BTrees to ZOPE 2.8

2005-11-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Margie Watkins CONT] The issue http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1695 asks for a statement from users who are affected by the missing modules. Unfortunately, that's become out of sight, out of mind since then -- the issue was opened 9 months ago, and to date you're the first to say you

Re: [ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Julien Anguenot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Peters wrote: So I tried that just now using ZODB trunk. It failed too, but with different symptoms than you're describing: $ python2.4 setup.py build ... $ python2.4 test.py -v Running tests from build/lib.linux-i686-2.4 Traceback (most

[ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Thomas Lotze
Tim Peters wrote: Things I can't guess include which version of ZODB you're trying this with, and exactly what the errors were. Copy+paste generally works a lot better than English paraphrasing. Sorry. From the build/lib.foo part I guess you're running on Linux. Right. So I tried that

RE: [ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim] ... This worked (which is what I normally do): [build_ext -i] [Thomas] It did for me too. I guess the crucial difference was doing build_ext instead of just build. Yes. Maybe someone with more distutils clue could say something about it; if my guess is right, README.txt should be

RE: [ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim] ... BTW, setup.py build python test.py should work too; it's a bug that it doesn't (and it worked fine within the last few months), but I don't have time for it now. Well, bug or not, the resident zpkgtools expert tells me he doesn't expect that to work anymore, and that it

RE: [ZODB-Dev] RE: RE: PersistentMapping

2005-11-18 Thread Tim Peters
[Julien] Well I'm not sure it works Tim. My comment was to be able to test the build *before* installing the ZODB on the Python. Right, and that's the way ZODB tests are normally run by everyone who works on ZODB (they never _install_ ZODB to run tests). I need to try that again but, if I

Re: [ZODB-Dev] POSKeyError tracing

2005-11-18 Thread Dieter Maurer
Paolo Linux wrote at 2005-11-17 10:23 +0100: ... I suspect that in some cases we do not manage Conflict Error (we retry for 3 times but then we give up...). Could this be connected with POSKeyErrors? It should not. Because giving up should mean you abort the transaction and your transaction

RE: [ZODB-Dev] Migration of obsolete BTrees to ZOPE 2.8

2005-11-18 Thread Dieter Maurer
Tim Peters wrote at 2005-11-18 10:02 -0500: [Margie Watkins CONT] The issue http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1695 asks for a statement from users who are affected by the missing modules. Unfortunately, that's become out of sight, out of mind since then -- the issue was opened 9 months ago,