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I’ve managed, at long last, to solve the problem of launching subprocesses from python. I have created a python module which can launch a subprocess, wait for the process with a timeout, and kill that process and all of its sub-subprocesses correctly, on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Source code is here. It requires python 2.4+ because it subclasses the subprocess module. On Windows, it only works on Win2k+, and it requires the ctypes module, which comes with Python 2.5+, or can be installed into earlier versions of Python.

You will be seeing a python-based tinderbox client appear on the MozillaTest tree shortly. Small projects or projects that don’t want or need the byzantine logic of the existing tinderbox client scripts can use a Python module to do tinderbox reporting using a simple object-oriented API. I’m hoping to use this to get Tamarin builds reporting to a tinderbox tree, as well as do some of the FF+XR build automation (which is significantly different from the existing build process).

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