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

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Wed Apr 14 22:20:19 CEST 2010

On 14 Apr, 2010, at 20:46, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

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.

That's fine. I'll first create a stable environment for performing builds/tests and contact you when I'm ready to be added to the buildbot farm.

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).

That should be easy enough to arange. The buildbot manual mentions an @reboot crontab entry, but a launchd item should be easy enough and is slightly cleaner.

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).

How would that work? Creation of the OSX installer is not integrated in the regular Makefiles but is a separate script.

A slightly problematic issue is that the machine I want to use for the buildbot is running OSX 10.6 and creating the binary installer doesn't work on 10.6 yet, but that should be easy enough to fix when I look into it.

Ronald

Regards, Martin

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