[Buildbot-devel] Re: BuildBot test fails on Win32 platform.

[Nick Trout]

Hey Brian, thanks for replying.

> > The following is helpful. I too am trying to get BB running on win32
and
> > am having problems. I logged one bug in SF to do with path
separators
> > not being OS independent in the tests. There may well be other
instances
> > of this.
> 
> Excellent.. I'm in the process of merging your sf.net patches now.

Great. I'd really like to get this system running. I know there are
other solutions, but they all seem to be Java, C# etc. I'm trying to
keep a lid on the number of languages we use and Python is one that we
use.

> > Currently having problems with the follow code killing the tests
> > (BUILDBOT_TEST_VC is not set). The unit test system isn't picking up
the
> > exeception. I don't really know much about trial so not sure if this
is
> > correct:
> 
> I had problems with this too.. I think they're fixed now. Let me know
if
> testing without BUILDBOT_TEST_VC is still broken.

I think that is working fine now. I haven't run any of the VC tests as
we are using Perforce and Alienbrain. The other tests that I'm having
trouble with I let you know about.

<<<<
ERROR: test_webPathname_port (buildbot.test.test_web.WebTest)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\unittest.py", line
252, in _
runPhase
    stage(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\unittest.py", line
274, in _
main
    self.runner(self.method)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\runner.py", line
104, in run
Test
    method()
  File "z:\tools\pythonlibs\buildbot\test\test_web.py", line 142, in
test_webPat
hname_port
    page = dr(d, 3)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\util.py", line 75,
in deferr
edResult
    raise result
Failure: [Failure instance: Traceback:
twisted.internet.defer.TimeoutError, Call
back timed out
]
>>>>

Nick