[PD-dev] buildbot or some other proper build automation

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:53 PM, András Murányi wrote:

> 2010/6/27 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 11:59 AM, András Murányi wrote:
>
>> 2010/6/10 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
>> 2010/6/10 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>
>> and its not 2010-06-10 in NYC yet :)
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> But in Moscow it is, so the script could make space for the  
>> following day's harvest too.
>>
>> Hello HC,
>>
>> still frequent failures because of the non existing directory. I'm  
>> serious - if you want to give a chance to uploaders from 'earlier'  
>> time zones than NYC you got to have the directory created  
>> earlier.... (just imagine Japan guys, they'd have a crazy short  
>> time frame to upload with the current setup)
>> BTW can we file bugs against the autobuild system on SF? I suppose  
>> not...
>>
>> Andras
>
> IMHO, the auto-build scripts are a big kludge, so I don't want to  
> spend more time on them.  And did the bulk of writing them.  :)  We  
> should use something like buildbot, but no one has set it up yet.   
> If you are interested, that would be a great project to take on.
>
> .hc
>
>
> Sounds cool. I'd be interested in picking up this project if you can  
> help me with the things i'm not so good at: the first is platforms.
> Buildbot seems something web-centered, and needs Twisted on the  
> clients too. Twisted is installed by default with Ubuntu and MacOSX  
> 10.5+, available for Windows and the rest goes from source. This  
> means, at a first glance, that Mac 10.4, Fedora and every other  
> Linux than Ubuntu, will need Twisted to be built or prebuilt, and  
> i'm not sure about 64-bit platforms and PPC. Python will be needed  
> to, i suppose it's more widely available.
> What do you think?
>
> Andras

We should move this discussion to pd-dev so its archived and others  
can contribute/learn/follow.  I hope you don't mind, I cc'ed pd-dev.

I think we can get twisted installed on 10.4 using Fink.  Its included  
in Debian too.  We'll need to install it manually on Windows, or  
however appropriate.  That said, I am not married to buildbot, if you  
want to take on this project, feel free to research other options.   
There are some that are Java-based for example.  I just remember  
builtbot sounding like the best back when I looked into it.

.hc



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