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[Nathanael Noblet]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 09 July 2009 17:22:20 Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 July 2009 17:15:47 Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Stuff in Fedora, but simply not used for whatever reason:
>>>>> -vobject (we have python-vobject)
>>>>> -pyflakes
>>>>
>>>> I thought they were used if found... I'd have to look at the run  
>>>> file to
>>>> see if they ignore the system versions..
>>>
>>> They weren't here. Had 'em already installed, and the run script  
>>> still
>>> insisted on downloading private copies.
>>
>> There are two patches they have for vobject, so that might explain  
>> why
>> a local copy of that is still being used. No clue on pyflakes though.
>
> Neither pyflakes or vobject are wrapped with a "only checkout local
> copies if it doesn't already exist on the system" check. After adding
> checks, I've got it running using the system versions of these now
> too. There may be $something that doesn't work right w/o the patches
> to vobject though, dunno.
>

Yeah, I was planning on using their caldavtester to test. Find any  
regressions...

I can't remember what package when not quite new enough caused some  
odd responses in the test suite, but most looked harmless (data came  
back correctly, but sometimes key/value pairs were in a different  
order from what the test was expecting, otherwise it was identical).

I just got a bit busy so hadn't continued to investigate, however I  
figured this package would necessitate including updating some fedora  
packages, as well as seeing how if their local patches could be pushed  
upstream somehow.