On 2019/04/02 10:15, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 02:31:57AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > So it turns out there is rather more to this release than is obvious > > from the "full changelog" linked from > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2716/ ... The main part is > > at > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/v2.7.16/Misc/NEWS.d/2.7.16rc1.rst > > > This is both more intrusive and more important than it first seemed, > > if people could test with their favourite py27 ports ASAP that would > > be nice. > > I had trouble getting this to build and install, having to manually > intervene a couple times, but once I had it built I started duplicating > the tests I did of all the ports I converted to using MODPY_PYTEST. I > had the list of what their "make test" results was. > > It looks good. Same or less failures across them. I had a suspicious > result where a port ran a lot more changes, but it turns out that > py-attrs got updated right after I did that work. It still passed all > tests with 2.7.16. > > So, assuming my problems getting it built are me missing something, > things look good here on amd64. I'll try and get an i386 ports machine > set up today and see about doing some testing on a (slow) sparc64 > machine. > > --Kurt >
A build test on sparc64 would be nice if possible (and a better use of time than i386, which I can test easily enough).
