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
