[Zope-Coders] Linux Test Results - Zope HEAD - failures:1

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Chris Withers writes:
 > What should debian users like myself do?

I don't know anything about Debian's package system, so I really can't
tell you.  I presume it won't be too different from what RPM users do,
if someone is producing the right kind of package file.

If anyone contributes one, I'll be glad to distribute it from the
Expat downloads page, but nobody has asked for one, much less
contributed any effort to make it happen.

 > Chris - I wish expat, and python's use of expat in particular,
 > didn't suck like a black hole...

I'm not convinced that it does.  This particular problem has nothing
to do with Python's use of Expat, but is a bug in Expat itself.  It's
showing up now because too much of the code masks exceptions, and the
test harnesses are layered a couple deep for some of the TAL tests.

Regarding the availability / non-availability of Expat in any given
Python installation, I discussed what we've done to simplify the user
experiance for Python users who want XML support in a thread of
messages a few weeks ago; I'm sure you can find that in the archives
if you need a refresher.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation