[Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Mar 13 23:32:03 CET 2006

Trent Mick wrote:

This touches on something we (including Martin) should think about: it's very painful to build a full Python on Windows because of these external packages...

Yup. That is part of what I meant by updating PCBuild\readme.txt below: to improve the instructions so the build-dance for all these external packages is a little more cut n' paste.

I took an approach with a little more automation: Tools/buildbot/external.bat gradually learns how to fetch and build the necessary prerequisites; to avoid moving URLs, these come from the external/ directory of the projects svn (in case of bsddb, this already has the patches, and the VS project files converted).

If people don't mind having prebuilt binaries checked in

Well, I do mind having prebuilt binaries checked in. They take up space for little gain, plus they might increase the maintenance burden.

That would require some kind of Scheduler work in the build master config that knows how to queue up scheduled builds from multiple sources to only allow one per machine at a time. I'd find this very useful for other projects at work and I'm sure other buildbot users would as well. Maybe buildbot may already have something like this?

I could not easily find it. There is the AnyBranchScheduler, but it seems to serve a different purpose.

Regards, Martin

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