[issue9048] no OS X buildbots in the stable list

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

Am 22.06.2010 12:40, schrieb Ronald Oussoren:
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> Ronald Oussoren<ronaldoussoren at mac.com>  added the comment:
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> Then why bother providing binaries?

How is that related? There was no OSX build slave until very recently,
but binaries had been provided for years. I see no reason to stop doing
so.

 > to hunt down issues that were introduced by other bugfixes.

That's appreciated. However, I fail to see the relationship to the 
buildbot stable list. The port was in good shape, and *still* didn't
pass all tests. That's partially because the test suite tests boundary
behaviour that doesn't affect the shape of the port.

 > that there seem to be very few core developers that care about
 > OSX beyond it being some odd flavor of unix.

The problem at hand is the port *doesn't* pass the test suite on
a regular manner. If it would, it could be added, and somebody
breaking the port could be asked to revert the change, or fix it
on OSX. As it stands, changes being made cannot be easily correlated
with new failures on that platform.

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