[Buildbot-devel] Trouble with addSuppression()

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:35:31 +0200,
Vadim Zeitlin <vz-buildbot at zeitlins.org> wrote:

> 	step = Compile(..., warningPattern=r"...")
> 	step.addSuppression(...)

> 	class MyCompile(Compile):
> 		def __init__(self, **kwargs):
> 			Compile.__init__(warningPattern=r"...", **kwargs)
> 			self.addSuppression(...)
> 	step = MyCompile(...)

Well I'm sorry but .. aren't these two sequences semantically
equivalent?

I guess I already know the answer is "no", but that means something
quite tricky is going on, and the question becomes, is such trickiness
good, proper, or at least necessary?

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