Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#21229 closed Uncategorized (wontfix)

Cygwin's gettext causes test failure

Reported by: Kevin Christopher Henry Owned by: nobody
Component: Internationalization Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I was getting the following error while running the test suite on Windows:

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FAIL: test_comments_extractor (i18n.commands.extraction.BasicExtractorTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Django\django\tests\i18n\commands\extraction.py", line 83, in test_comments_extractor
    self.assertTrue('#. Translators: One-line translator comment #3' in po_contents)
AssertionError: False is not true

After some investigation I realized that this only happened while using Cygwin's 0.18.1 version of gettext: switching to the Windows 0.18.1 binary from here (as recommended) caused the test to pass.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the handling of line breaks, since I was also able to make the test pass by removing the line break between {% comment %} and Translators: in tests/i18n/commands/templates/test.html. I haven't investigated much further.

So this does not seem to be a Django bug, but I thought I'd mention it...

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I guess the actionable item would be to document this, but I don't think we can reasonably expect to keep a full list of caveats on all known systems up-to-date, so the wiki is probably more appropriate for this info. Feel free to create a page (or find an existing one) if you'd like.

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