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

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Fri Mar 17 03:44:40 CET 2006

So PythonWin needs to be installed on a Windows buildbot slave, right?

FWIW, we are having reasonable success with buildbot service packaged as a py2exe application - just unzip into a directory and go! This has the primary advantage (to me!) of not using the Python installed on the box, thereby avoiding inconvenient "file is in use" errors when you do need to update that Python or similar.

As I've been chatting with Trent about recently, I intend updating my buildbot patch to use the win32 "Job" related functions to manage the build subtasks more effectively and potentially guard against the buildbot using too many resources. Sadly though, my buildbot patch has been languishing in their collector without comment, so my motivation is fairly low.

Cheers,

Mark

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