[Python-Dev] building a module catalogue with buildbot

[Trent Mick]

[Neal Norwitz wrote]
> > [Fredrik Lundh wrote]
> > > Can buildbot deal with custom test/validation scripts, and collect the output
> > > somewhere ?
> >
> ...
> It looks like we could define a class similar to Test, such as:
> 
> class Catalog(ShellCommand):
>     name = "catalog"
>     warnOnFailure = 0 # this was 1, not sure which we want
>     description = ["catalog"]
>     descriptionDone = ["catalog"]
>     command = ["/f cmd here", "and", "other", "flags"]
> 
> The factory is created like this:
>         f = factory.GNUAutoconf(source, test=["make","testall"])
> 
> ISTM, we can just add this line:
>        f.steps.append(s(Catalog, command=Catalog.command))
> 
> Does that make sense?  We would just need /f's script in SVN.

Yup. Sounds right to me.



> PS  If there was a method on ShellCommand, adding a step would be simpler, e.g.,
> 
>   def addStep(self, cls, **kwds):
>     self.steps.append((cls, kwds))
> 
> then we could do: f.addStep(Catalog, command=Catalog.command)
> which would simplify a bunch of code in process/factory.py since it is
> called this way 10 times.  Didn't look elsewhere.

Add a buildbot patch/bug?
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=73177&atid=537003



Trent

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