[ZODB-Dev] Call for volunteers: help w finishing Python BTrees

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/04/2011 01:32 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:36 AM, David Glick
> <davidglick at groundwire.org> wrote:
>> On 10/4/11 8:33 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> 
>>> Someone recently told me I should be more agressive about asking
>>> for help.
>>> 
>>> If someone is looking for an opportunity to help, finishing the
>>> Python version of BTrees would help a lot.  I think I got this
>>> started pretty well, but ran out of time.  This is needed for
>>> running ZODB on PyPy and jython, both of which I'd like to see.
>>> 
>>> svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/ZODB/branches/jim-python-btrees
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> P.S. Much thanks to Tres for his work on the Python version of 
>>> persistence.
>> 
>> What tasks remain to be done? (I assume running the tests will give
>> a starting point, but perhaps there are other todo items you know
>> of?)
> 
> Really, just getting the tests to pass.  I think there are a lot of
> legacy, but still supporte features that need to be fixed.  (This is a
> really old package.)

In a fresh checkout of the branch, I see what looks like an infinite loop
in the tests:  I left it running for an hour just now, and it hung inside
the '_set_operation' helper function inside the 'test_difference'
testcase for 'PureOO' testcase.


Tres.
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