Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Pycotine issues on pyobjc 0.9

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after finding that the existing pyobjc testsuite could be slightly
> improved (by deleting code) I've run some tests with Pycotine, my
> Unittest-GUI which sort of worked as expected on pyobjc 0.8.
> 
> Unfortunately, it does mysteriously crash on 0.9 after finishing the
> tests. I just reinstalled 0.8 and there it does work, again. On 0.9
> I get this error "Pycotine has exited due to signal 11 (SIGSEGV)."
> 
> All I had to change from 0.8 to 0.9 is to make use of PyObjCTools
> like this (before NibClassBuilder was in AppKit):
> 
>    from PyObjCTools.NibClassBuilder import AutoBaseClass
>    from PyObjCTools import NibClassBuilder
> 
> Any ideas?

0.9 mostly handles release/retain automatically so I would look for
retains in your code. Ok, I had a look, and indeed: try to remove
task.release(). It probably causes a crash when the task variable goes
out of scope, when it is released _again_...

Just