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

[András Murányi]

>
>> 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
>

I have had the same impression, so i'm interested. It's just that we shall
foresee what's foreseeable before jumping on it.
So if anyone knows anything possibly better that Buildbot speak up. Java
stuff, i'm not so much into it, but that's just me.

Andras
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