[Twisted-Python] Regression in Gtk2 support testing

[Itamar Turner-Trauring]

On 02/20/2012 10:10 AM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 03:14 am, itamar at itamarst.org wrote:
>
>> The reactors buildslave is a reasonable strategy: have multiple runs
>> with different reactors as the main trial reactor. Especially since,
>> even in the absence of this problem, we'd want to continue to have full
>> runs under the different reactors because the reactor mixin tests don't
>> cover everything yet.
> ... with the caveat that *eventually* the mixin tests should cover
> everything, and then we will want to stop running trial with different
> -r arguments.  And perhaps the further caveat that we won't test both of
> these reactors on Windows, because we've already overloaded our Windows
> slave capacity and we can't really add more trial steps with different
> -r arguments.

While this is true up to a point, developers would still need to rely on 
Buildbot runs because if you're on Linux you can't test IOCP or kqueue 
locally even if ReactorMixin style tests had full coverage. So requiring 
one extra "trial -r" in a buildslave won't make a difference to 
developers; they will not be able to rely on local runs for full test 
coverage no matter what.