[Distutils] buildbot for buildout (again)

Gary Poster gary.poster at canonical.com
Fri Aug 27 14:56:20 CEST 2010


On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:

> 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).

FWIW, tests passed for me on Ubuntu (Lucid) and Windows when I made a release, with Distribute and Setuptools, with a variety of Python versions.

>> 
>> 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.

Definitely.  I contemplated trying to make it possible to develop buildout with a system Python, but that needs zc.recipe.testrunner upgraded to the new approach of generating scripts, maybe among other changes.  

And the initial setup necessary is to call dev.py, if that makes a difference.

And there are some pre-existing tests that fail intermittently on Linux.  I didn't address these.

Gary

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Jim Fulton
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