On Nov 29, 2011, at 18:04, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andi Vajda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On Nov 29, 2011, at 15:18, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> I've once again spent an hour building PyLucene, which gives me some
>>> sympathy for issue 10:
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PYLUCENE-10>>> =20
>>> I was thinking about how to address this...
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>>> One thing I've found useful at PARC is to set up buildbot tests for
>>> hard-to-package systems. Basically, the test just waits for changes to
>>> the SCM repository, checks out the code, and tries to build. A nice
>>> side-effect is that, when successful, it produces a binary for the build
>>> slave's platform.
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>>> I'm unsure whether this would work for PyLucene. The ASF build slaves
>>> seem pretty coarse-grained. I see that there is an "osx-slave", but
>>> there's no information about it (10.5? 10.6? 10.7?), no contact, and it's
>>> down.
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>> I know nothing about the Apache buildbots. Why not contribute buildbots for P>> yLucene at PARC ?
>
> Because this is something the ASF should really address. I'm happy to
> volunteer to set up a PyLucene build test on an ASF buildbot -- maybe
> more than one if it's easy to clone.
Given the bizarre netbsd(?) jail the Lucene Java bot is setup in, I can't imagine a multi OS x multi Java x multi Python build bot to materialize anytime soon.
That being said, I really don't know what is and isn't available as infrastructure from the ASF for these kinds of things so I might be completely wrong here.
Andi..
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> Just looked at snakebite.org -- no OS X buildbots there, either.
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> Bill
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>> Andi..
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>>> A possibility would be to use the Python buildbots, but of course there's
>>> no assurance that Java is installed on any of them.
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>>> Bill