[Python-Dev] Buildbot questions

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for
>> the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot
>> quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many builds.
>
> My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just linux. I know that for a
> couple of my other open source projects I usually don't spend too
> long debugging bizarrely broken apparent bugs, because it ends up
> being some strange build flag or some such on the gentoo box in
> question. On the other hand, this box is unlikely to have been built
> with a selection of gcc flags that Neal just selected randomly from
> the gcc manual <wink> so it's probably going to be better than that.
>
>>> Heck, there's a pile of 500MHz P3s sitting here that I could drop
>>> a random free unix onto if someone wants to nominate something
>>> that's
>>>
>>> a) useful
>>> b) not a total pain in the clacker to install.
>>
>> For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they
>> qualify for b), I don't know.
>
> Anyone else have an opinion on the ease of installation for the
> various BSDs? Last time I tried one (which was several years ago) it
> was Not Very Good.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD are painless these days, assuming that you're  
comfortable reading text during installation.  No experience with  
NetBSD.

-bob