Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib v1.1.1 (bugfix) rc1 on Thursday

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Rui DaCosta <ru...@ya...> wrote:

> Attached is the testing output on both Win7x64 and WinXPx32.
>
> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=268, errors=144)
>
> In case anybody else is having issues, the head version of nose is
> required to run the tests due to multiprocessing issues in the stable
> version of nose.
>
> After installing PIL, most of the KNOWNFAIL issues are similar to: Cannot
> compare pdf files on this system (why is this?)
> most of the errors are: IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
>
>
The bulk of the KNOWNFAILs are occurring because you do not have the
pre-requisites installed for testing the PDF, SVG and PS backends.  The
test requirements for these backends are described at

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#requirements

The bulk of the other failures are occurring because you are hitting the
"too many open file" bug on windows.  This has been addressed in this pull
request, and we'd be happy to have testers on windows of this PR

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/798

JDH