[Distutils] [buildout] windows/jenkins annoyance

[Jim Fulton]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/01/2013 21:16, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>
>>> My horrible hack around this is:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Simplistix/testfixtures/blob/master/jenkins.bat#L2
>>>
>>> ...which waits 20 seconds and then moves to the next step. It's far from
>>> reliable, especially when the Windows box has any load on it.
>>>
>>> Can you make any suggestions how to solve this problem?
>>
>>
>> No, can you? :)
>>
>> The problem is that buildout is upgrading for a new setuptools. To do
>> this,
>> it needs to rewrite the buildout script, but *windows* won't let it do
>> that
>> because the script is open.  Maybe there's a better way around this.
>
>
> Can you point me at the buildout code?

https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/master/src/zc/buildout/buildout.py

/me suspects a trick question.

Look at _maybe_upgrade

>
>
>> Your workaround, if I understand it, to wait 20 seconds looks good to me.
>> :)
>
>
> ...except the spurious failures :-(
>
>
>> Another option would be to pin setuptools in your buildout.cfg to avoid
>> the
>> upgrade.
>
>
> Would that work? How would I pin to a version of distribute?

In buildout 2 master, you just set distribute's version in a versions section.

In buildout1 you set the distribute-version option in the buildout section.

>
>
>>> PS: Where does the buildout continuous integration testing live nowadays?
>>
>>
>> https://travis-ci.org/buildout/buildout
>
>
> Hmm, I don't even know how to read that I'm afraid :-S
>
>
>> http://winbot.zope.org/builders/
>>
>> Note that the buildout 1 tests always fail. (I give up.)
>
>
> I spy some 1.6.x tests, I thought the "1" branch was on 1.7 now?
> If those are the tests you're referring to, they appear to be failing on the
> git part, rather than anything further...

They are now.  They were failing before that switch.


> Where can I find out how I should be looking to run the tests?

https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/master/DEVELOPERS.txt

Jim

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