[elephant-devel] Ditching Darcs

[Ian Eslick]

Historically we've had problems with tests being non-idempotent.  I  
usually wipe the dbs between runs to ensure that hidden interactions  
don't break test assumptions.

Ian

On Oct 28, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Alex Mizrahi wrote:

> LPP> The only major problem with it is that the Postmodern backend
> LPP> hasn't kept up with the schema evolution changes.
>
> hm, what do you mean? i thought it works reasonably well, as there
> are just a handful of glitches to left resolve, but i won't call  
> that "a
> major problem".
> or am i missing something?
>
> i've just updated repo elephant-unstable and ran tests with postmodern
> (i have few local changes but i don't think they make difference):
>
> Did 462 checks.
>    Pass: 460 (99%)
>    Skip: 1 ( 0%)
>    Fail: 1 ( 0%)
>
> Failure Details:
> --------------------------------
> SIMPLE-EXPLICIT-ASSOC-SETUP []:
>      Unexpected Error: #<SIMPLE-ERROR {C177871}>
> There is no class named PJASSOC...
> --------------------------------
>
> Skip Details:
> SIMPLE-EXPLICIT-ASSOC []:
>     Dependencies not satisfied.
>
> actually it seems to be quite chaotic -- i have different set of  
> errors
> each time i run a test suite. but i guess that is either a problem
> with tests or a problem with my SBCL, because i also get problems
> with BDB backend.
>
> heh, running it one more time left no errors:
>
> Did 462 checks.
>    Pass: 462 (100%)
>    Skip: 0 ( 0%)
>    Fail: 0 ( 0%)
>
> really there's some BS with tests..
>
>
>
> LPP> There were still some deca of failing tests when I last tried
> LPP> it.
>
> and no problems with BDB and CLSQL, if you run it on a clean DB,
> and afterwards on less clean?
>
> LPP> Maybe it makes sense to have two releases: 091.1 for all
> LPP> who wish to use Postmodern (a snapshot of the current stable)
> LPP> and 092 for all who are content with CLSQL or BDB.
>
> yep, as for me that makes sense..
>
>
>
>
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