[Distutils] The problem with Setuptools on Python 3.

[Antonio Cavallo]

SuSE runs a build service for free and support automatic rebuild of
packages from sources:


https://build.opensuse.org


For anyone interested you can find the lates svn python snapshot under:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cavallo71:/python-opt/

Each subdirectory (CentOS_5, RHEL_5 etc) contains a yum repository
to download the packages opt-python-XXXX

These python packages install under their own separate directory tree
(/opt/opt-python-2.7a0 is the latest snapshot).

In order to use one of them all it is needed is:
$> . /opt/opt-python-2.7a0/opt-python-env.sh
$> python

Python 2.7a0 (trunk, Apr 20 2009, 12:45:44)
[GCC 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os; print os.__file__
/opt/opt-python-2.7a0/lib/python2.7/os.pyc


I hope this helps in testing,
Regards,
Antonio

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:17 AM, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:
>>> But it's quite a work...
>>
>> I think it is very important to put this software infrastructure into
>> place.
>>
>> or at least include it in some sort of plan going forward....
>>
>> have the server farm report build bugs back to the maintainers...
>>
>> I am prepared to assist with this... and perphaps cover some of the costs.
>>
>> Amazon web services provide the very same virtual machines that you are
>> describing at extremely low cost. Otherwise it is just two much work.
>>
>> Google also offer a similar thing.
>
> Wonderful ! Money-wise, I think the PSF would probably cover these
> expenses if we come up
> with a good, well-defined project. I have tried to make it a GSoc
> topic but I didn't find any student
> picking it up because I didn't find the time to describe it deeply enough.
>
> I have created a page here :
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/TestingInfrastructure
>
> If you want to start there on the topic, that could be great.
>
> Tarek
>
>>
>>
>> David
>>
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>
>
>
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> Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org
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