[Zope-dev] Re: Reminder: feature freeze November 1.

[Tres Seaver]

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Mark Hammond wrote:
>>>Not on Windows:
>>>
>>>    Windows test failures on Zope trunk
>>>    http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1931
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>CMF-trunk runs fine on the Zope trunk, etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>Certainly agree it would help to have a specific list of what (if
>>>anything) still needs to fixed.  FWIW, I don't expect Windows test
>>>failures to hold up a beta release (note that I didn't say that's a
>>>policy I agree with ;-)).
>>
>>Without Windows-centric developers who are motivated to investigate and
>>fix those bugs, I don't know what else we can do.
> 
> 
> That bugs points at
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2005-October/025512.html, which
> quotes Tim as saying:
> 
> : No idea where this slash-vs-backslash confusion ultimately comes from,
> : though.  Who recently checked code in hard-coding "/" as a path
> : separator?
> 
> So in this specific example, the problem seems less a lack of Windows
> centric developers, but more an abundance of non-Windows-centric developers
> :)
> 
> These test failures appear at first glance to not be windows specific at
> all - just possibly pointing at non-portable code written by others.  As a
> Windows developer, I'm afraid I have no idea where I would start looking for
> this bug.


test.py in the root is the likely culprit, as it is mucking with
sys.path.  Does this patch make the Windows tests pass?

- --- test.py     (revision 40087)
+++ test.py     (working copy)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     if shome:
         shome = os.path.abspath(shome)
     else:
- -        shome = os.path.join(zhome, 'lib/python')
+        shome = os.path.join(zhome, 'lib', 'python')
 elif shome:
     shome = os.path.abspath(shome)
     zhome = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(shome))



Tres.
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