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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We could improve life for everyone even more if we built Tcl/Tk once per update and made it a binary dependency. Nobody is updating our version of it regularly anyway, and this would significantly improve build time in CI.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The externals script probably just needs some retry logic. Doesn’t look like a “throw it all out” problem to me.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Steve</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Top-posted from my Windows phone</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu">Terry Reedy</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 23, 2017 11:44<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:python-dev@python.org">python-dev@python.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Python-Dev] Appveyor builds fail on Windows for 3.6 backports.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/23/2017 2:24 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Example: appveyor passes for</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2335#discussion_r123724857</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Appveyor build fails for 3.6 backport</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2359</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.6.1+.3673</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> The compile and build errors have nothing to do with the patch.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> This failure is routine; turning off appveyor for 3.6, until fixed, would</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> reduce noise.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I presume this is a workflow issue, but I don't know if Windows experts</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> would see it.</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> I had not seen that failure before, but it is troubling. For</p><p class=MsoNormal>> AppVeyor, it looks like we might be able to get around it by using the</p><p class=MsoNormal>> `cache` feature (which we should probably do anyway), but if that</p><p class=MsoNormal>> failure happens routinely otherwise, we may have to completely rethink</p><p class=MsoNormal>> the approach I've taken in https://bugs.python.org/issue30450</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If by 'cache', you mean keep a current build of the main x.y branch, and</p><p class=MsoNormal>only recompile what is needed, and skip compile for .py and .rst only </p><p class=MsoNormal>patches, thereby speeding up CI testing, I would be all in favor.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- </p><p class=MsoNormal>Terry Jan Reedy</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>Python-Dev mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>Python-Dev@python.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev</p><p class=MsoNormal>Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40python.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>