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Re: Who to contact to get a buildd retry on alpha?



On Nov 30, 2007 11:47 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Is monotone some programing language?  It doens't look like any language
> I have seen before.  It looks like the test has gone through a few
> revisions to try and deal with race conditions, maybe they haven't got
> it right yet.

monotone is a version control system; the test suite is written in Lua
(see lua.org).

Yes, the test has some kind of bug in it, which no one has yet been
able to find.  It fails only about once in every fifty runs, so
upstream has not bothered to investigate in detail.

zw



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