#52 closed defect (invalid)

test-from-egg and test-from-prefixdir are sometimes not testing the right code

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Version: 0.5.19 Keywords: test setuptools
Cc: Launchpad Bug:

Description

There is currently nothing to ensure that the test-from-egg and test-from-prefixdir steps of pycryptopp builds aren't subject to the same bug as http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1137 .

Fixing this probably just requires updating misc/build_helpers/run_trial.py to reflect http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/misc/build_helpers/run_trial.py (which I believe is already generic enough to handle the pycryptopp build setup).

This would allow detecting failures like this one, rather than silently testing the wrong code. (I don't have specific evidence that the current pycryptopp builders are testing the wrong code, but we didn't know that the Tahoe-LAFS builders were until recently.)

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed at 2010-09-19T00:38:25Z by davidsarah

  • Summary changed from are test-from-egg and test-from-prefixdir testing the right code? to test-from-egg and test-from-prefixdir are sometimes not testing the right code

comment:2 Changed at 2010-09-19T00:53:49Z by davidsarah

and on the kyle-openbsd-amd64 and randy-freebsd-amd64 builders.

comment:3 Changed at 2016-01-03T23:09:34Z by zooko

  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from new to closed

We've removed the test-from-egg and test-from-prefixdir tests.

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