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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:49 PM, András Murányi wrote:

>
>>>
>>> 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


Any word on the possibility of buildbot or something else?  I'd love  
to have a system where people could have their libraries built on all  
platforms separate from Pd-extended. Also, builds of the various git  
branches of 0.43 that are cropping up could be useful too.

.hc

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