[Python-Dev] Updates to XP-4 and FreeBSD build slaves

[David Bolen]

I think in a prior discussion, it was suggested that build slave
updates were ok for this list - I apologize to those who may not be
interested.

I've just completed some updates to my two build slaves.

XP-4 is now running XP Pro SP3 (was SP2) and is using the full version
of VS 2008 (was previously using Express).

FreeBSD is now running FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE (was 6.2-RELEASE).

Both are new VMs, and also now use the latest buildbot (0.7.11p3)
release.  For at least the next few days they are being run on a
different host while I do some long-awaited maintenance to the old
host.  I've done manual builds on both, as well as reissuing a few
builds through the master, but if anyone notices anything strange
please feel free to drop me a note.

-- David

PS: I did discover one interesting bug by starting fresh on
Windows. It turns out that one of the distutils tests assumes Notepad
entries in the registry that aren't actually present unless you run
Notepad at least once.  I hadn't needed to run it, but then noticed
the build failures so ran it just to get the registry populated.