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

[Nick Coghlan]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I seem to recall there was some issue (aside from the current lack of a
>> reliable OS X buildbot) that prevented us from regularly grabbing the
>> head of the tree and using it to automatically build the Windows and Mac
>> installers (to check that the installers could actually be created,
>> preventing a repeat of the Mac situation with 2.7b1).
>>
>> Am I misremembering the discussion from last time this topic came up?
> 
> I only remember a similar discussion, which was about why the Windows
> nightly builds had been dropped. The reason was that the process was too
> flaky and required too much manual fixing, and that the demand for these
> binaries was too low. I don't recall OSX being mentioned in that
> discussion, though.

Yep, that sounds like the discussion I was thinking of.

Cheers,
Nick.

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