[Zope-dev] zope-tests - FAILED: 86, OK: 5

[Adam GROSZER]

On 06/04/2013 10:08 AM, Adam GROSZER wrote:
> On 06/03/2013 04:59 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> On 06/03/2013 09:04 AM, Adam GROSZER wrote:
>>> On 06/03/2013 02:37 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>>>> On 06/02/2013 09:00 PM, Zope tests summarizer wrote:
>>>>> This is the summary for test reports received on the zope-tests
>>>>> list between 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC and 2013-06-02 00:00:00 UTC:
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>>>> I'm not sure where we are with these failures.  I can't reproduce
>>>> the exact failures on fresh checkouts, but I believe we are in a
>>>> weird state due to a combination of factors:
>>>>
>>>> - - distribute / setuptools merger - - PyPI now HTTPS-only - - PyPI
>>>> CDN caching?
>>>>
>>>> I think we should be aiming to switch our bootstraps over ASAP to
>>>> pick up setuptools 0.7:  it doesn't appear to be simple at the
>>>> moment to get that installed, as there is no 'ez_setup.py' in the
>>>> beta location:
>>>>
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think it's the first. It seems to be a distribute vs setuptools
>>> fight. I recently installed distribute in site-packages, but that does
>>> not seem to help.
>>
>> Would it help to update to setuptools-0.7 in the 'site-packages'
>> (removing distribute completely)?  I have the feeling that the faster we
>> put setuptools-0.6 and distribute behind us, the better off we will be.
>>
>> I've played with it some this morning:  the major issue for our buildouts
>> is to get an 'ez_setup.py' selected which doesn't look for setuptools-0.7
>> on PyPI -- I don't quite know why, but it is only available here:
>>
>>    https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads
>>
>> The attached file woks for me using e.g.:
>>
>>   $ /path/to/python bootstrap.py --setup-source=file:///tmp/ez_setup.py
>>
>
> Seems like installing setuptools-0.7.1.tar.gz in site-packages solved
> it. No need to add --setup-source to bootstrap.
>
> See here:
>
> http://winbot.zope.org/builders/zope.annotation_py_265_32/builds/885
>
> As next if setuptools-0.7 is the ultimate solution we should push the
> guys to use and respect tests on windows. That might catch problems
> earlier.
>

Meeeh now the other half seems to fail...

We should decide what's the current stable mix of tools, then a script 
or someone needs to go through all packages.

Or, I'll use again a central bootstrap.py for all packages. Which is 
kind of misleading in tests.

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  Adam GROSZER
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