welcome to python2.7+, java 8 and more! :) i'll be doing a major upgrade to our build system next thursday morning. here's a quick list of what's going on:
* installation of anaconda python on all worker nodes * installation of pypy 2.5.1 (python 2.7) on all nodes * matching installation of python modules for the current system python (2.6), and anaconda python (2.6, 2.7 and 3.4) - anaconda python 2.7 will be the default for all workers (this has stealthily been the case on amp-jenkins-worker-01 for the past two weeks, and i've noticed no test failures) - you can now use anaconda environments to specify which version of python to use in your tests: http://www.continuum.io/blog/conda * installation of new python 2.7 modules: pymongo requests six pymongo requests six python-crontab * bare-bones mongodb installation on all workers * installation of java 1.6 and 1.8 internal to jenkins - jobs will default to the system java, which is 1.7.0_75 - if you want to run your tests w/java 6 or 8, you can select the JDK version of your choice in the job configuration page (it'll be towards the top) these changes have actually all been tested against a variety of builds (yay staging!) and while i'm certain that i have all of the kinks worked out, i'm going to schedule a longer downtime so that i have a chance to identify and squash any problems that surface. thanks to josh rosen, k. shankari and davies liu for helping me test all of this and get it working. shane
