> One thing you guys should also consider is automated building/testing > of packages. On different platforms. > > Let me give you a practical example... > > package win32... > > latest version.. no longer works on windows 2000... > > only works on xp... or vista... > > Bad for me.. takes me time to figure out whats wrong... > > Only solution.. go back and find an older release.. yes.. i know.. > I can do that... that works... > > With cloud computing... you can get test environments for every platform > > Amazon web services as one example offer this > > Perl does nightly "builds" and tests.... > > their automated test system "tests everything" > > Another big issue i dislike with many packages... they depend on > having msvc installed to be able to build them. > > In many cases because I don't have MSC installed... this prevents > me from building some packages. I don't like that... > > I don't believe building "everything" on the 5-10 major platforms > we have (or however many there are) is too much. > > Plus now, we have all these different versions of python.. and > instead of getting better it is only seeming to get more worse...
I had this idea of running a test server that would listen to PyPI and get every new package to build it and test it on various platform/python. I think this could be done right now, with how distutils works, It requires creating virtual machines and destroying them every time for security reasons. But it's quite a work... Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
