Re: [myhdl-list] Conversion Example Error in 0.7 Manual

[Martín G. <ga...@gm...>]

2011/6/9 Christopher Felton <chr...@gm...>

> On 6/9/2011 4:29 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> > On 06/09/2011 12:59 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> >> A new user to MyHDL was trying to convert one of the examples in the
> >> manual on pages 67-68 in the pdf version for release 0.7
> >> (conversion_examples.rst)
> >> http://www.myhdl.org/doc/current/manual/conversion_examples.html.
> >>
> >> The example failed to convert for a "output port read internally" error.
> >>     This error only appears to occur with the 0.7 release.  This might
> be
> >> a known issue.
> >>
> >> With the latest hg repo, 0.8dev, the error does not occur but rather a
> >> warning.
> >
> > Are you sure? I quickly investigated the repo, and it seems that
> > this was always a warning. At some point however, there was no
> > warning and the VHDL would be incorrect because it generated
> > an 'out' instead of an 'inout'. But that's quite some time ago.
> >
> > Jan
>

Hi Jan,

btw,
Lastly I've been using tox [1] which is a great tool to automatize the test
running in different scenarios (py26, py27, pypy, etc) , and it's easily
integrable with sphinx doc testing [2] . I think it would be useful for
myhdl's dev process.

[1] http://tox.testrun.org/en/latest/
[2]
http://tox.testrun.org/en/latest/example/general.html#integrating-sphinx-documentation-checks