Thanks. I've had a couple references to Appveyor, so will see if I can make heads or tails of it during my Christmas-to-New Year's break.
Skip On Dec 15, 2017 5:43 PM, "Ned Batchelder" <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > On 12/15/17 2:03 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> SpamBayes (http://www.spambayes.org/) has languished for quite awhile, >> in part because nobody is around who can put together a Windows >> installer. Unfortunately, most users are on Windows and have to work >> around problems caused by the march of time and consequent beefing up >> of Windows security. >> >> I don't do Windows, but I wonder... Can one of the various continuous >> integration tools out there be enlisted to build Windows installers? >> The SB code is written in Python, uses the Win32 extension, and is >> hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/smontanaro/spambayes), so >> something which plays nice with that environment would be a plus. I'm >> slowly gaining familiarity at work with Bamboo (very, very slowly), so >> the general idea of what CI tools can do is starting to sink in. Since >> I'm a captive Atlassian customer at work, though, I don't know what >> limitations I might encounter trying to use it in an open source >> environment. >> >> Any feedback appreciated. As this is only Python-related in the sense >> that SpamBayes is written in Python, feel free to reply off-list. >> >> Skip >> > > I use AppVeyor CI to build Windows installers for coverage.py. It's not > straightforward though, there are Powershell scripts, etc. The config file > is here: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/blob/master/appveyor.yml > with other necessities in the ci folder. > > Hope that helps, > > --Ned. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list