[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.3.1

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 13 Feb 2007, at 00:20 , Michael Kerrin wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 10:41, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> I'd like to release Zope 3.3.1 soon. The tests are passing on  
>> Linux and
>> Mac OS, apparently there's only a problem with zope.app.twisted on
>> Windows, afaik. Can we get this problem isolated, analyzed and fixed
>> asap, please?
> I don't know what is going on with the tests on Windows. But I have  
> just
> managed ( for the first time :-) ), to compile, start, and run all  
> the tests
> successfully on Windows.

So, you're not seeing a test failure then?

Adam, can you make the installer for 3.3.1 again, upload it (w/o  
publishing it) so that we can try to reproduce it on our machines?

> Althoug I had a slight problem starting Zope because of  
> ZODB.winlock not
> working but considering all the problems I ran into to get the damn  
> thing to
> compile I put this down to my lack of experience with Windows.

How did you compile Zope on Windows? I assume you used some version  
of Visual Studio?

>> We can't delay this maintenance release any further. It's bad enough
>> that a *release (!) branch* has been broken for such a long time w/o
>> having been fixed.
>>
>> If this isn't fixed soon, I'm going to advise to the maintainer of  
>> the
>> 3.3.x line to back out the change that led to the test failure so  
>> that
>> we can assure all of the Zope 3.3 users out there that we're indeed
>> fixing bugs and releasing the fixes. Zope 3.3.1 has tons of other
>> bugfixes that people out there are waiting for.
>>
>> I hope we won't have to resort to reverting the zope.app.twisted  
>> change.
> The thing is I don't know what as changed in the twisted code. I  
> recently
> updated Twisted on the trunk - but I didn't put this change onto  
> the 3.3
> branch.

I see. Perhaps this is spurious then?