Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6.10 Release Candidates

[Jan N. <jan...@gm...>]

Op di 8 okt. 2019 om 22:33 schreef Marc Culler <cul...@gm...>:
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> Running the test suite on a VM with the Catalina "Gold Master" beta produced one segfault, about 20 hangs and around 100 test failures.  This is not close to the nightmare that we saw with Mojave, but it is non-trivial.
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> With a few small changes I was eventually able to eliminate the segfault, most of the hangs (leaving two from which one can escape by moving the mouse) and about 13 failures.

Well, in addition, I saw failures in entry/scale/spinbox tests.
Changing "update" in "vwait" appears to help there (although we should
- at least - implement a timeout there).
Indeed, something is different in the moment events fire.  (since
Yesterday, I have Catalina installed on my iMac ... ). See also the
"catalina_more_tests" branch for a first shot.

However, I don't see the widget demo mis-behaving, so maybe we should
just accept the test-failures on Catalina as they are for now.
Opinions?

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> While the changes were small, they were pretty hard to find and are very hard to explain.  They are in the catalina_tests branch.  I would be grateful if some of the experts on this list could review the changes and even more grateful to hear explanations of why they were needed.

Well, don't count me as expert on that ...  , but I'm happy to do some
more testing.

Regards,
    Jan Nijtmans