[PkgEval] Codecs may have a testing issue on Julia 0.4 (2014-09-29)

[IainNZ]

PackageEvaluator.jl is a script that runs nightly. It attempts to load all Julia packages and run their tests (if available) on both the stable version of Julia (0.3) and the nightly build of the unstable version (0.4). The results of this script are used to generate a package listing enhanced with testing results.

On Julia 0.4

• On 2014-09-28 the testing status was Tests pass.
• On 2014-09-29 the testing status changed to Tests fail, but package loads.

Tests pass. means that PackageEvaluator found the tests for your package, executed them, and they all passed.

Tests fail, but package loads. means that PackageEvaluator found the tests for your package, executed them, and they didn't pass. However, trying to load your package with using worked.

This error on Julia 0.4 is possibly due to recently merged pull request JuliaLang/julia#8420.
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Test log:

>>> 'Pkg.add("Codecs")' log
INFO: Installing Codecs v0.1.2
INFO: Package database updated

>>> 'using Codecs' log
Julia Version 0.4.0-dev+842
Commit e5d8c1a (2014-09-29 06:50 UTC)
Platform Info:
  System: Linux (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Sandybridge)
  LAPACK: libopenblas
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.3

>>> test log
ERROR: test error in expression: reinterpret(Int,decode(Base64,encode(Base64,reinterpret(Uint8,n)))) == n
InexactError()
 in decode at /home/idunning/pkgtest/.julia/v0.4/Codecs/src/Codecs.jl:155
 in anonymous at test.jl:83
 in do_test at test.jl:47
 in include at ./boot.jl:245
 in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
 in process_options at ./client.jl:285
 in _start at ./client.jl:354
 in _start_3B_3625 at /home/idunning/julia04/usr/bin/../lib/julia/sys.so
while loading /home/idunning/pkgtest/.julia/v0.4/Codecs/test/tests.jl, in expression starting on line 6


>>> end of log