[Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 14 20:46:14 CEST 2010

Speaking of which... I have a mac-mini that could be used for a buildbot. How much work is needed to kickstart a buildbot, taking into account that I'd prefer to have a buildbot with different configure-flags that the default unix build (that is, I want to test a framework build that is a universal binary).

The configure flags are defined on the master, so if I know what they should be, I can arrange your slave to see them. You can't then change them easily.

On the slave, you need to install buildbot, and create a slave configuration; it would the be good if the slave process would somehow get restarted automatically after a system reboot (I think there are recipes for that out there).

Creating the Mac installer is easy: just run Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on an OSX 10.5 system where a local version of Tcl/Tk 8.4 is installed in /Library/Frameworks. The system should also not have fink or darwinports and a clean /usr/local tree to avoid contaminating the build.

Buildbot also supports uploading binaries to the master, which we did for the Windows builds. We could do that for OSX as well (in which case the release manager might be able to trigger a release build by just passing the right branch name in the master UI).

Regards, Martin

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