[Ns-developers] release update

[Tom Henderson]

Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
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> 2009/6/10 Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org <mailto:tomh at tomh.org>>
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>     (by the way, is there a plan for supporting valgrind in test.py?)
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> We had talked about this before.
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> There is no plan.  Unfortunately, Python does some memory allocation 
> tricks that valgrind reports as errors.  When I want to check Python 
> bindings memory errors, I used a debug python build (configure python 
> with ./configure --with-pydebug --without-pymalloc), and then valgrind 
> works.  But with a standard Python binary valgrind will always detect 
> phony errors and we don't want that.

I documented the above on the Python wiki page, thanks.  But I was 
mainly asking about keeping the --valgrind option for C++ if we move 
regression to test.py.

Tom