[Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Speaking of which... I have a mac-mini that could be used for a
> buildbot. How much work is needed to kickstart a buildbot, taking
> into account that I'd prefer to have a buildbot with different
> configure-flags that the default unix build (that is, I want to test
> a framework build that is a universal binary).

The configure flags are defined on the master, so if I know what they
should be, I can arrange your slave to see them. You can't then change
them easily.

On the slave, you need to install buildbot, and create a slave
configuration; it would the be good if the slave process would somehow
get restarted automatically after a system reboot (I think there are
recipes for that out there).

> Creating the Mac installer is easy: just run
> Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on an OSX 10.5 system where a
> local version of Tcl/Tk 8.4 is installed in /Library/Frameworks. The
> system should also not have fink or darwinports and a clean
> /usr/local tree to avoid contaminating the build.

Buildbot also supports uploading binaries to the master, which we did
for the Windows builds. We could do that for OSX as well (in which case
the release manager might be able to trigger a release build by just
passing the right branch name in the master UI).

Regards,
Martin