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

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:54 AM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>    Bill> In any case, they shouldn't be needed on buildbots maintained by
>    Bill> the PSF.
>
> Sure.  My question was related to humans building binary distributions
> though.  Unless that becomes fully automated so the release manager can just
> push a button and have it built on and as-yet-nonexistent Mac OSX buildbot
> machine, somebody will have to generate that installer.  Ronald says Fink,
> MacPorts and /usr/local are poison.  If that's truly the case that's fine.
> It's just that it reduces the size of the potential binary installer build
> machines.

Actually, you can just use a chroot "jail" to build the binary - I use
this process to build the official numpy/scipy binaries, it works very
well whatever crap there is on my laptop otherwise.

cheers,

David