Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Warner
> > Ah, but that would require changes to the slaves, right? I would > > prefer a solution that avoids that. > > I don't think so. In my little test setup I didn't have to make any > change to the slave. The "update" and "clobber" mode parameters are implemented on the slave side. Trent's patch c

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:01, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > The problem with irc-enabling (or web-enabling) such things is that > there is a potential for abuse. Of course, in this case, we could > wait for the abuse to happen. That would be my vote. Worst comes to worst, we lock it down to a list

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Trent Mick
[Martin v. Loewis wrote] > Trent Mick wrote: > > I think I'm part of the way there with the following. I've subclassed > > the "SVN" source build step to add support for new source mode: > > "update_and_clobber_occassionally". Basically it (hackily) changes the > > source type btwn "update", which

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Trent Mick wrote: > I think I'm part of the way there with the following. I've subclassed > the "SVN" source build step to add support for new source mode: > "update_and_clobber_occassionally". Basically it (hackily) changes the > source type btwn "update", which we usually want, and "clobber", whi

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Trent Mick
> > To wipe out the build occassionally you could (presumably) add a > > starting step to the Python 'builder' (in the build master.cfg) to > > rm -rf $builddir > > every, say, Sunday night. > > Sure, that would be the idea. How to formulate it? I think I'm part of the way there with the fol

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Anthony Baxter wrote: > At least with the way Twisted is set up, the buildbot also sits in an > IRC channel and sends updates there. It can also be controlled from > there. Is this worth doing? A 'force clean build' command could be > added... The problem with irc-enabling (or web-enabling) suc

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Trent Mick wrote: > (Still learning my buildbot mojo.) One idea would be to do what > Mozilla's Tinderbox does: they have one set of builds that are > incremental and one set that are full. Actually looking around on > tinderbox.mozilla.org I could only find incremental builds so I'm not > sure wha

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Trent Mick
[Martin v. Loewis wrote] > I would like to do this in buildbot, but I'm not sure how to > (i.e. wipe the build occasionally, but not every time). > > For example, I could imagine completely cleaning the build directory > every time the build number % 10 == 0. Still, what the precise > buildbot inc

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 06 January 2006 18:39, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I would like to do this in buildbot, but I'm not sure how to > (i.e. wipe the build occasionally, but not every time). > > For example, I could imagine completely cleaning the build > directory every time the build number % 10 == 0. Still, w

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters wrote: >>Still, perhaps it's wise to wipe the checkout every so often? > > > I think it is. And while I haven't seen this under MS VC7.1 yet, a > few times I caught VC 6.0 failing to recompile after a relevant > header file changed. Certainly from-scratch checkout + build should > b

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Peters
[John J Lee] > Might a buildbot running this setup of David Munman's (free MS compiler + > NAnt interpreting the MS project file) be useful? > > http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/226584dd47047bb6/1e33ad19197bee20 No comment from me about that (don't know anything

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Anthony Baxter wrote: > My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just linux. I know that for a > couple of my other open source projects I usually don't spend too > long debugging bizarrely broken apparent bugs, because it ends up > being some strange build flag or some such on the gentoo box in

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread John J Lee
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John J Lee wrote: > Might a buildbot running this setup of David Munman's (free MS compiler + > NAnt interpreting the MS project file) be useful? s/Munman/Murmann/ John ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for >> the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot >> quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many b

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for > the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot > quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many builds. My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just lin

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
John J Lee wrote: > Might a buildbot running this setup of David Munman's (free MS compiler + > NAnt interpreting the MS project file) be useful? I feel that any contribution here takes quite some time initially, so somebody making that offer should accept some pain until it really works self-cont

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Anthony Baxter wrote: > FWIW, I have an older box running Ubuntu 05.10 that spends most of > it's days pining for stuff to do (at the moment, it does DHCP and DNS > for the house. Yes, I know I have too many damn computers here). I > can set up a buildbot on it easily enough. It's something like

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread John J Lee
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Tim Peters wrote: [...] > A problem for Windows buildbot slaves is that they need an appropriate > compiler. Does this machine have MS VC 7.1 installed? If not, it > can't compile the code. The Windows Python would also like to build > several other packages (like bz2 and Tcl

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Tim Peters
[Morel Xavier] > I currently have a (quite weak) computer that mostly sits idle (shares > the web connection), Tbird 750; 640Mb RAM; Windows Server 2003 Standard > Edition. > > Since the computer sits there doing nothing, I could probably put a > buildbot on it if needed (since the

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
FWIW, I have an older box running Ubuntu 05.10 that spends most of it's days pining for stuff to do (at the moment, it does DHCP and DNS for the house. Yes, I know I have too many damn computers here). I can set up a buildbot on it easily enough. It's something like a 600MHz P3 or something. Is

Re: [Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread skip
Morel> but i'd like to know how often it'll try to build, and how long Morel> the build itself may take on such a platform. It should build every time there's a checkin on trunk or the 2.4 branch. As for performance, take a look at http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/ to see how long

[Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

2006-01-05 Thread Morel Xavier
I currently have a (quite weak) computer that mostly sits idle (shares the web connection), Tbird 750; 640Mb RAM; Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. Since the computer sits there doing nothing, I could probably put a buildbot on it if needed (since the python-dev thread state