[Python-Dev] Buildbot questions (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Jan 5 22:12:03 CET 2006

On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many builds. My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just linux. I know that for a couple of my other open source projects I usually don't spend too long debugging bizarrely broken apparent bugs, because it ends up being some strange build flag or some such on the gentoo box in question. On the other hand, this box is unlikely to have been built with a selection of gcc flags that Neal just selected randomly from the gcc manual so it's probably going to be better than that.

Heck, there's a pile of 500MHz P3s sitting here that I could drop a random free unix onto if someone wants to nominate something that's

a) useful b) not a total pain in the clacker to install. For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they qualify for b), I don't know. Anyone else have an opinion on the ease of installation for the various BSDs? Last time I tried one (which was several years ago) it was Not Very Good.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD are painless these days, assuming that you're
comfortable reading text during installation. No experience with
NetBSD.

-bob

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