[Cython] cython-devel broken in 1507:d87254afb524

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Dec 19 10:23:36 CET 2008


Hi,

Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>> Should't runtest.py forcibly compile the Scanning,Parsing, etc
>> extension modules?
> 
> Ideally runtests.py should offer as clear diagnostics as possible and 
> allow you to focus on the spot of the problem. A self-compiled Cython 
> segfaulting is a very indirect way of spotting a problem.

I agree. The whole purpose of the test suite is finding bugs in Cython.
Running it with a compiled Cython compiler would actually degrade the
quality of error reports by killing the stack trace.

Stefan


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