[Python-Dev] building a module catalogue with buildbot

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:19:08AM +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> 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.

A limited solution is just to make the script put the files where they will be
published by something other than buildbot.  e.g. Twisted's docs are built from
SVN by one of our buildslaves, and placed in a directory published at
http://twistedmatrix.com/users/warner/doc-latest/

-Andrew.