Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:09 AM, nadim khemir wrote: I received an answer from Eric : I wish I did have some kind of comparison. Here's what one user wrote about choosing cabie: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/blog/2007/11/06/Continuous_Automated_Build_and_Integration_Environment.html

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:56 PM, James E Keenan wrote: David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:23:52PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: David Cantrell wrote: If anyone can give me an idiots' guide to how to grab the most recent source tree, build it, and test it, then I can test it on the

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
Turns out the parrot build/test failed on SVN revision 24566, but passed in revision 24567 So, I am gonna see if i can make a buildbot config to build and test parrot, using an SVN polling configuration where I'll try and check the SVN repo every N minutes and then do a checkout/build/test

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Matisse Enzer # on Saturday 05 January 2008 13:25: Turns out the parrot build/test failed on SVN revision 24566, but   passed in revision 24567 So, I am gonna see if i can make a buildbot config to build and test   parrot, using an SVN polling configuration where I'll try and check   the

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 5, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Is there any sort of build_ok/test_ok matrix for $svn_rev x $platform for parrot? Distributed, cross-platform projects tend to suffer from oh yeah, trunk is broken on $platform right now (i.e. as of 10 minutes ago), which is hard to know if

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-05 Thread Matisse Enzer
I've set up a parrot buildmaster/slave, currently located at: http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8040/ --- Matisse Enzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.matisse.net/ - http://www.eigenstate.net/

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-04 Thread nadim khemir
On Thursday 03 January 2008 19.42.26 nadim khemir wrote: I did send a mail to cabie author asking if he had made a comparison between cabie and other systems. I also invited him to join us on this mailing list. I'll forward his answer if he does answer me. I received an answer from Eric : I

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-04 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:23:52PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: David Cantrell wrote: If anyone can give me an idiots' guide to how to grab the most recent source tree, build it, and test it, then I can test it on the same boxes as I do CPAN testing, plus maybe a couple

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 2 Jan 2008, at 20:02, nadim khemir wrote: Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in Perl). Does that make it better? :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Jan 2008, at 09:15, Adrian Howard wrote: On 2 Jan 2008, at 20:02, nadim khemir wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2007 10.11.41 Matisse Enzer wrote: I've spent some of this holiday season learning how to set up BuildBot ... Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread Michael Peters
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 3 Jan 2008, at 09:15, Adrian Howard wrote: There's also Michael's rather swizzy Smolder project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder Indeed. Smolder++. You still need something to manage a build farm though. I got about 80% done on Test::SmokeStack

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 3 Jan 2008, at 12:53, Michael Peters wrote: My Python Fu is weak but I spent a productive couple of hours hacking about with buildbot last night. My aim is to make it easy to test all the modules in my SVN against multiple Perl's on multiple machines and have the config changes to add a new

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 2, 2008, at 12:02 PM, nadim khemir wrote: On Saturday 29 December 2007 10.11.41 Matisse Enzer wrote: I've spent some of this holiday season learning how to set up BuildBot ... Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in Perl). http://cabie.tigris.org/ Can

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread nadim khemir
On Thursday 03 January 2008 11.50.03 Andy Armstrong wrote: Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in Perl). Does that make it better? :) RTFM! In the feature list the authors writes * It's really cool!. Since cool is better than good, I assume it is ;) The written in

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:23:52PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: David Cantrell wrote: If anyone can give me an idiots' guide to how to grab the most recent source tree, build it, and test it, then I can test it on the same boxes as I do CPAN testing, plus maybe a couple of others. svn co

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-02 Thread James E Keenan
David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:51:50PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: If anyone can give me an idiots' guide to how to grab the most recent source tree, build it, and test it, then I can test it on the same boxes as I do CPAN testing, plus maybe a couple of others. svn co

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-02 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Jan 1, 2008, at 5:23 PM, James E Keenan wrote: svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/ parrot_test cd parrot_test perl Configure.pl make make test (If you're not looking to commit, you may be able to get by with http rather than https: UNTESTED.) ('make smoke' can be substituted for

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-02 Thread nadim khemir
On Saturday 29 December 2007 10.11.41 Matisse Enzer wrote: I've spent some of this holiday season learning how to set up BuildBot ... Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in Perl). http://cabie.tigris.org/ Cheers, Nadim.

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-02 Thread nadim khemir
On Saturday 29 December 2007 10.11.41 Matisse Enzer wrote: I've spent some of this holiday season learning how to set up BuildBot ... I've also found this one to be written in Perl: http://www.johnkeiser.com/mozilla/tbox3.html other links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Integration

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-02 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from nadim khemir # on Wednesday 02 January 2008 12:02: Cabie seems to be as good, if not better (psst, it's written in Perl). http://cabie.tigris.org/ Well, it says it is written in PERL, which I have found to be a very scary and unworkable language derived from FORTRAN or maybe C ;-) That

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2008-01-01 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Dec 31, 2007, at 4:24 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:51:50PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: How might this be used to perform smoke-testing for a project like Parrot, where we want to test on many combinations of operating system, platform and C compiler? If

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2007-12-31 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:51:50PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: How might this be used to perform smoke-testing for a project like Parrot, where we want to test on many combinations of operating system, platform and C compiler? If anyone can give me an idiots' guide to how to grab the most

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2007-12-29 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 29 Dec 2007, at 09:11, Matisse Enzer wrote: For now I have the build status pages for the three projects at:` http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8010/ http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8020/ http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8030/ That's very interesting Matisse. We currently have a fairly ad-hoc

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2007-12-29 Thread Matisse Enzer
On Dec 29, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote: That's very interesting Matisse. We currently have a fairly ad-hoc smoking setup for Test::Harness that runs on a few machines here. It looks as if I could replace that and make it more flexible using buildbot. Do you have any useful

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2007-12-29 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 29 Dec 2007, at 18:46, Matisse Enzer wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote: That's very interesting Matisse. We currently have a fairly ad-hoc smoking setup for Test::Harness that runs on a few machines here. It looks as if I could replace that and make it more flexible

Re: buildbot - an experiment

2007-12-29 Thread James E Keenan
Matisse Enzer wrote: I've spent some of this holiday season learning how to set up BuildBot (http://buildbot.net/) which is a Continuous Integration system that is especially aimed at open-source style projects: You set up a central build master, and one or more build slaves - and it is very