[Distutils] buildbot for buildout (again)

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Adam GROSZER <agroszer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After the 1.5.0 I tried again to setup a buildbot (and on top of that
> on *windows*) for buildout.
> Good news is that the tests now work.
> Bad news is that there are a hell lot of failures.
> More bad news is that there are some failures even on linux (a local
> ubuntu).
>
> Does anyone care about having a buildbot for buildout and fixing those
> failures?

Obviously, I want the tests to pass.  I'll wade in, if necessary after the
dust settles from 1.5.

I suspect that part of the problem may be that the tests tend to
depend on how the python used to run them is configured.  I always ran
them with a clean Python. Other people tended to run them with a Python
that had setuptools or distribute installed, and changed the tests to make them
pass in their environment -- and so on.  I'm going to take a fresh
look at the way
the tests are written and run to try to address this, among other things.

Jim

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Jim Fulton