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. 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
