On 10/13/06, Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 16:59, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > yeah, but *you* are doing it. if the server did that, Martin and > > other trusted contributors could upload the files as soon as they're > > available, instead of first transferring them to you, and then waiting > > for you to find yet another precious time slot to spend on this release. > > Sure - I get that. There's a couple of reasons for me doing it. First is gpg > signing the release files, which has to happen on my local machine. There's > also the variation in who actually builds the releases; at least one of the > Mac builds was done by Bob I. But there could be ways around this. I don't > want to have to ensure every builder has scp, and I'd also prefer for it to > all "go live" at once. A while back, the Mac installer would follow up "some > time" after the Windows and source builds. Every release, I'd get emails > saying "where's the mac build?!"
With most consumer connections it's a lot faster to download than to upload. Perhaps it would save you a few minutes if the contributors uploaded directly to the destination (or to some other fast server) and you could download and sign it, rather than having to scp it back up somewhere from your home connection. To be fair, (thanks to Ronald) the Mac build is entirely automated by a script with the caveat that you should be a little careful about what your environment looks like (e.g. don't install fink or macports, or to move them out of the way when building). It downloads all of the third party dependencies, builds them with some special flags to make it universal, builds Python, and then wraps it up in an installer package. Given any Mac OS X 10.4 machine, the builds could happen automatically. Apple could probably provide one if someone asked. They did it for Twisted. Or maybe the Twisted folks could appropriate part of that machine's time to also build Python. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
