-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2010 11:52 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:05:03AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: >> On 09/26/2010 07:58 AM, Zope Tests Summarizer wrote: >> >>> Subject: FAILED : Zope Buildbot / ztk slave-ubuntu64 >>> From: jdriessen at thehealthagency.com >>> Date: Sat Sep 25 09:57:03 EDT 2010 >>> URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-September/020550.html >> >> This failure is due to 'test-ztk' timing out. I'm willing to bet that >> the 'zope.testrunner' doctests which attempt to test use of pdb are to >> blame: they cause the tests to hang on my machine, anyway. > > I can reproduce that in r116884, but it appears to be fixed in the > latest revision (116919), which bumped zope.testing to 3.10.0. > >> I would favor commenting out those tests, or even removing them >> altogether. I don't think the "feature" is worth any price at all in >> terms of the overally ecosystem. > > Being able to use pdb to debug doctests is occasionally valuable.
I don't mind that such debugging is possible: I do mind very much having a meta-doctest which tries to demonstrate that feature cause runs of the test suite to hang. Those-who-try-to-lift-themselves-by-their-boostraps-kiss-lots-of-pavement'ly, Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyf6IEACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4GbQCgmoC2DiolqAaIVXCCNvGrmlJx qh0An0PHapfpGEAFjth4lHyjp9/O+mza =GWiX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )