On Nov 29, 2011, at 15:18, Bill Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've once again spent an hour building PyLucene, which gives me some
> sympathy for issue 10:
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PYLUCENE-10
> 
> I was thinking about how to address this...
> 
> One thing I've found useful at PARC is to set up buildbot tests for
> hard-to-package systems.  Basically, the test just waits for changes to
> the SCM repository, checks out the code, and tries to build.  A nice
> side-effect is that, when successful, it produces a binary for the build
> slave's platform.
> 
> I'm unsure whether this would work for PyLucene.  The ASF build slaves
> seem pretty coarse-grained.  I see that there is an "osx-slave", but
> there's no information about it (10.5? 10.6? 10.7?), no contact, and it's
> down.

I know nothing about the Apache buildbots. Why not contribute buildbots for 
PyLucene at PARC ?

Andi..

> 
> A possibility would be to use the Python buildbots, but of course there's
> no assurance that Java is installed on any of them.
> 
> Bill

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