Bazaar 2.2 Windows installer - selftest broken

[Maritza Mendez]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Vincent Ladeuil
<v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr<v.ladeuil%2Blp at free.fr>
> wrote:

> >>>>> "Maritza" == Maritza Mendez <martitzam at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    Maritza> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Alexander Belchenko <
> bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>    >> Standalone bzr.exe (windows installer) has broken selftest for bzr
>    >> core itself. It's a known issue. So don't expect `bzr.exe selftest`
>    >> will ever pass.
>    >>
>    >>
>     Maritza> Interesting.  Can you elaborate on this or direct me to a
> thread describing
>    Maritza> this known issue?  For example, is this a temporary known
> issue, or is it an
>    Maritza> issue-by-design?
>
> It's more a design choice of the standalone bzr.exe than a real issue
> with bzr on windows (IIRC the bzrlib/tests directory is not included or
> only partially).
>
> We are still working on making *all* the tests pass on windows (see
> http://babune.ladeuil.net:24842 for details).
>
> In summary, once the thread/socket leaks are solved (which is a
> test-only problem) only a handful of minor failures will have to be
> addressed).
>
>    Maritza> I am asking because I've been assuming (oops!) that all
>    Maritza> stable releases of bzr are subjected to pretty much the
>    Maritza> same regression suite on all supported platforms.  Is that
>    Maritza> a bad assumption?
>
> No, it's not a bad assumption. Pedantically speaking, not all tests pass
> on windows but the failures (and their causes) are known and don't
> represent serious problems as far as bzr usage is concerned.
>
>          Vincent
>

Thanks, Vincent.  Nice setup with Hudson, by the way.  Yes, I remember the
socket leaks... :)

~M
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