[Python-Dev] buildbot vs. Windows (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 04:24:59 CET 2006

[Aahz]

If you're willing to commit to running a buildbot, and the only thing preventing you is shelling out $ to Microsoft, send me e-mail. I'll compile a list to send to the PSF and we'll either poke Microsoft to provide some more free licenses or pay for it ourselves. This is what the PSF is for!

Speaking as a PSF director, I might not vote for that :-) Fact is I've been keeping the build & tests 100% healthy on WinXP Pro, and that requires more than just running the tests (it also requires repairing compiler warnings and Unixisms).

Speaking of which, a number of test failures over the past few weeks were provoked here only under -r (run tests in random order) or under a debug build, and didn't look like those were specific to Windows. Adding -r to the buildbot test recipe is a decent idea. Getting some debug-build test runs would also be good (or do we do that already?).

Anyway, since XP Pro is effectively covered, I'd be keener to see a Windows buildbot running under a different flavor of Windows. I expect I'll eventually volunteer my home box to run an XP buildbot, but am in no hurry (and probably won't leave any machine here turned on 24/7 regardless).

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