[Distutils] [venv] Re: two questions about virtualenv

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 06:33 pm, ssteinerx at gmail.com wrote:
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>On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>>ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote:
>>>On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>>>>>I'm going to cross-post this to the distutils list as well.  If the
>>>>>idea is to stabilize Distribute, get some tests in place, etc. 
>>>>>then this
>>>>>method of distribution  (running 2to3 in situ, as it were) is not 
>>>>>the correct
>>>>>way to do it from a "shipping the tested product" perspective.
>>>>I don't agree with that statement.
>>>
>>>This is not analogous to running a C compiler, it's analogous to
>>>running a pre-processor maybe, but the fact that the distribution
>>>doesn't run the tests on the exact code delivered in the package 
>>>gives
>>>me agita.
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>>You can't run tests on an sdist:  at a minimus, you have to build it 
>>and
>>run the tests with the build directory on your path.  Tests run 
>>inside a
>>"develop" egg (a VCS checkout) are always potentially influenced by 
>>the
>>environment they are run in, which is why we need buildbots (or the
>>equivalent) for each supported platform.
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>Buildbots seem to be in short supply  though they should be easy 
>enough to come by in this day and age of penny-an-hour cloud computing.
>
>I think I'll see if maybe I can just whip up something about this...

Not sure if you're aware, but the latest version of buildbot includes 
support for managing ec2-based slaves.  That's an easy way to get all 
the slaves you can afford.

Jean-Paul