Re: [matplotlib-devel] [PATCH] experimental numscons support in matplotlib

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Tony S Yu wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:34 AM, Andrew Straw wrote:
>> However, with svn r7985, the trunk fails to find the tests. This is so
>> weird. There's nothing in that commit that I can see that should cause
>> the failure, but it seems repeatable. r7984 doesn't have it and r7985
>> does. And it appears to be more or less the issue that the scons branch
>> had. Sigh.
>
> Could this failure be related to the bug filed by Christoph Gohlke 
> (see tracker 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2903596&group_id=80706&atid=560720>)? 
> The change corresponds to r7985 and affects setupext.py. I'm not sure 
> if the numscons build uses setupext.py, but it may be worth checking out.
Thanks Tony (and Christoph) -- this fixed it.

I wonder why I wasn't getting a more severe error on linux? This might 
offer a clue as to the testing weirdness we've been experiencing lately.

Anyhow, I got the tests passing on the buildbots again so that we should 
immediately be notified upon new failures. I think we need to work hard 
to keep the buildbots green so we can catch things like this.

-Andrew