On 2010-3-7 20:01, Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christophe Combelles wrote: >> I've added another buildbot that runs the ZTK tests against all the package >> trunks: http://buildbot.afpy.org >> This should allow to detect breakages earlier (before releasing packages) on >> the >> different versions of Python. >> >> The Python 3.1 slave is just there to remind us there's another task waiting >> ;) > > I'm not sure that testing ZTK against the package trunks is quite the > right thing: we have to be free to make changes to trunks while leaving > the ZTK "known good" on older, stable versions: otherwise we might as > well[ be releasing a monolithic tarball. > > For instance, there were proposals to release zope.component 4.0, with a > bunch of potentially incompatible architectural changes: the ZTK would > need to stick with older versions until after the whole set "caught up" > with the new APIs / usage patterns.
Debian has fully automated that approach in its testing distribution. Perhaps something similar might be doable for the ZTK. Wichert.= -- Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
