For example, I just looked at your Django report, and it became immediately
clear that you are using an unsupported Django version. I'm not sure how
backwards compatible our app is with 1.4 now, so I'd have to take a look.


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> So I went through the manual installation to see how the entire stack
>> is, and many things broke. I have provided some information on the issue
>> tracker too.
>>
>
> There's only so much we can do with the amount of distros supported. Once
> every release cycle, we test autotest installation on Ubuntu, and we never
> officially tested Debian. We have our hands full with Fedora and RHEL.
> That's why we need people that use Ubuntu and Debian on a daily basis to
> help, if they want the set of programs to be well supported there.
>
> At the beginning, when the google team started developing autotest, they
> were mostly an Ubuntu/Debian shop, so it worked very well there. Once I
> took over, I fixed all the quirks with RHEL and Fedora, and I've been since
> them taking care of those. The differences between Linux distros make
> maintaining things working in a handful of similar versions already a pain.
> The bottom line is, in order to autotest to work well on RHEL, it took one
> person with time available to work on it to fix things.
>
>
>> But after a while, I gave up the manual setup. autotest depends on
>> python-django and the python-django in Debian is newer. So some
>> interfaces broke there.
>> Right now, I set it up, as instructed, on the Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Server
>
>
> I suppose this involves the install script under /contrib, is that right?
> You mention 'manual installation', and that did not give me good feelings
> that you actually performed things as instructed.
>
>
>> autotest definitely needs a version dependency based packaging. I myself
>> am a DD and may consider packaging it, some day, as I get more versed
>> with autotest, and really consider using it for our day job. :-)
>>
>> Currently, at work, we are evaluating autotest for certain
>> cross-platform framework
>>
>
> I will try to take a look at it this weekend, but I can't make any
> promises.
>



-- 
Lucas
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