[Python-Dev] building a module catalogue with buildbot

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> My initial thought was that we could ask alpha testers to run this script on
> their alpha builds, and report back, but it just struck me that the "buildbot"
> already builds stuff on a couple of interesting platforms.
> 
> Can buildbot deal with custom test/validation scripts, and collect the output
> somewhere ?

Collecting the output is the real challenge. Basically, you are
restricted to putting stdout of a process into a file. So a result
that is a set of linked HTML files is not supported.

Regards,
Martin