mark florisson, 10.07.2012 11:20: > On 10 July 2012 08:24, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> I've fixed some of the errors that current block the tests. The remaining >> failures in the memory view tests exist in both Py2.4 and 2.5, which hints >> at a problem with the buffer support in numpy.pxd. >> >> https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/job/cython-devel-tests/BACKEND=c,PYVERSION=py25-ext/504/testReport/ >> >> The memslice test failure is annoying. It looks like slice() fails to >> properly deep-copy in Py2.[45]. I don't know if we can do anything about >> this, seems more like a CPython bug. Deep copying is used to split function >> definitions for fused types and I guess slice objects are used in >> combination with the memory slices. So both don't currently work together >> in Py2.[45]. > > I'm pretty sure I fixed the slice copying problem through a > __deepcopy__ overload a long time ago elsewhere. I don't think these > tests should be excluded from the test run yet.
Ok. > Perhaps we should run > the 2x tests from py27 down to 2.4. Tests in newer python's are less > likely to fail. Test failures are bad in general, though. Just because you hear about them a couple of minutes later doesn't mean that they are less important. >> I'd like to release a 0.17 alpha soon, so please get these sorted out in >> one way or another ASAP. I'm also fine with declaring these features >> unusable in older Python releases if we can't fix them, but it would >> obviously be better to get them working. > > I'll try to find some time this week. Any news from this? Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
