[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints) (original) (raw)

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Fri Jul 14 13:46:55 CEST 2006 

Neal> How often is the python build broken or otherwise unusable?

Not very often. I use the head branch of the repository as the source of the interpreter I run on my laptop. It generally takes just a couple minutes on my now-aging PowerBook to svn up and reinstall. I can only recall one time in the past where I had to temporarily fall back to 2.4 because of some change that broke an application.

Admittedly, I'm not as sophisticated a user as Fredrik or Glyph, but I suspect that my usage of the language isn't all that different from most Python developers out there.

Neal> Is part of your point that these developers only care about
Neal> something called "release" and they won't start testing before
Neal> then?  If that's the case why don't we start making
Neal> (semi-)automated alpha releases every month?

How would that be any easier than a user setting up a read-only repository and svn-up-ing it once a month then using that as the default interpreter on that person's development machine? I maintain interpreters for 2.3, 2.4 and bleeding edge at the moment. If I need to it's fairly trivial (a symlink change) to fall back to the latest stable release.

Glyph, would that sort of scheme work for you?

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