Please have a look to my pet project: http://pyvm.sourceforge.net
It solves all the problem you could possibly imagine (famine included!): * provides binary build - ADMINISTRATOR FRIENDLY * could guarantee a reproducible build * integrates smoke tests (just the begin of a continuous integration system) Regards, Antonio > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:19:13 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Let's suppose you have all your code 100% covered in tests (wich is > > not the case in 99.99% of the packages). > > Sure. Ok, developers don't write enough tests... > > They don't have time... it's not fun.... can't be bothered... > > But lets be realistic, there's too many python versions now... > > too many platforms... > > why can't we do automated builds/tests to cut down the work for > developers... > > > So you run the test using all Python versions (which supposes you have > > *all* Python versions installed, which is not the case on 99% of the > > people systems out ther) > > Think of it like this.... > > We give python 3.1 the crown.... > > and write the code for that, that can regressively test any code > backwards a package on all the old python versions.. > > thus, our latest python version... has way more power than any > previous version... > > > Then what happens ? Do you store the result in the metadata ? Like, by > > setting up the Requires-Python field with the output ? > > I didn't think of that... it's an excellent idea... > > Think of how much work that could save... > > > Frankly, you could just explicitely mark the Python version your code > > is suppose to run with, > > but it would be more fun as you say if it was determined programmatically > by distutils based on running some analysis of the actual code.... > > David > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
