Re: possible freeze break: pyatspi2 should raise LookupError forIPC errors

[Mike Gorse <mgorse novell com>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Frederic Peters wrote:

> Mike Gorse wrote:
>
> > Pyatspi2 is raising different exceptions from the original pyatspi
> > in the case of an IPC error.  This causes problems with Orca and
> > LDTP since they have code that expects specific exceptions, and with
> > pyatspi2 they are getting exceptions that they do not expect,
> > leading to tracebacks and test failures.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645644
> >
> > I've tested with orca and Firefox and with some event monitoring
> > code based on the code in Accerciser.
> >
> > The patch adds a wrapper function to convert exceptions and modifies
> > functions to use it.
>
> There has been a patch already to orca to catch RuntimeException; is
> this still releavant? Should the orca commit be reverted?

Okay; that is one less program then which would be dependent on this 
patch, so now it is just LDTP that I know about which would be affected by 
the change.  Either way, I don't see a need to revert the Orca patch.