[Zope-dev] Re: Reminder: feature freeze November 1.

[Jim Fulton]

Dang, that's embarassing. Thanks Tres!

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 23:43 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Mark Hammond wrote:
> >>>Not on Windows:
> >>>
> >>>    Windows test failures on Zope trunk
> >>>    http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1931
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>CMF-trunk runs fine on the Zope trunk, etc.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Certainly agree it would help to have a specific list of what (if
> >>>anything) still needs to fixed.  FWIW, I don't expect Windows test
> >>>failures to hold up a beta release (note that I didn't say that's a
> >>>policy I agree with ;-)).
> >>
> >>Without Windows-centric developers who are motivated to investigate and
> >>fix those bugs, I don't know what else we can do.
> > 
> > 
> > That bugs points at
> > http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2005-October/025512.html, which
> > quotes Tim as saying:
> > 
> > : No idea where this slash-vs-backslash confusion ultimately comes from,
> > : though.  Who recently checked code in hard-coding "/" as a path
> > : separator?
> > 
> > So in this specific example, the problem seems less a lack of Windows
> > centric developers, but more an abundance of non-Windows-centric developers
> > :)
> > 
> > These test failures appear at first glance to not be windows specific at
> > all - just possibly pointing at non-portable code written by others.  As a
> > Windows developer, I'm afraid I have no idea where I would start looking for
> > this bug.
> 
> 
> test.py in the root is the likely culprit, as it is mucking with
> sys.path.  Does this patch make the Windows tests pass?
> 
> - --- test.py     (revision 40087)
> +++ test.py     (working copy)
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>      if shome:
>          shome = os.path.abspath(shome)
>      else:
> - -        shome = os.path.join(zhome, 'lib/python')
> +        shome = os.path.join(zhome, 'lib', 'python')
>  elif shome:
>      shome = os.path.abspath(shome)
>      zhome = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(shome))
> 
> 
> 
> Tres.
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