(Just to clarify, this is about the *python bindings* tests, not about the Python tests of the core C binaries subversion/svn*/)
Barry Warsaw wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 17:38:04 -0400: > Does anybody have any additional information? Is anybody working on fixing > the failing Python 2.7 tests? Is there an open bug on the issue? > I don't recall hearing anything of this issue, other than your mail and Arfrever's mail that you link to. > I'm currently working on adding Python 2.7 support to Ubuntu, and am in the > process of investigating build problems with various packages. One such > package is Subversion, which appears to build just fine against Python 2.7 but > fails a handful of tests. I can see from this message > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/120567/match=python+2.7 > > the same set of failing tests. I'm also building/testing 1.6.12 (or > thereabouts). Building against Python 2.6 has no problems. > > I've looked at the tests but don't understand them well enough for any obvious > problems to jump out at me. I was unable to find any open issues tracking > these failures. > > I'd be happy to work with folks to put together a set of patches to fix the > Python 2.7 bindings. I'm tempted to just disable the tests for now to get a > working package. Perhaps the best way to start would be for you to start analyzing some of the failures and post your findings to dev@; I'm sure someone familiar with the bindings will pick the thread up.
