[Python-Dev] configuring the buildbot to skip some tests?

[Vincent Davis]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
>
> > Not to interrupt you  you conversation but I am interested in setting
> > up a buildbot on one of my Macs. Is there any documentations or advise
> > that is different from that of a linux machine?  Any advise would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Assuming you mean "set up a build slave for Python testing"...
>
> Here's what I did.  I was installing on a Tiger machine, which comes
> with Python 2.3.5, so the first thing I did was to install Xcode 2.5,
> the latest release for Tiger.  I also needed Subversion, so I downloaded
> and installed that.  Later versions of OS X Xcode include Subversion, so
> you won't need to do it separately if you're using those.
>
> I then installed Python 2.6.5 from python.org, which winds up in
> /usr/local/bin, and modified my PATH to put /usr/local/bin on it.  I
> downloaded the source bundles for Twisted, zope.interface, and buildbot,
> and installed them in that order -- "sudo python setup.py install" works
> fine for each of them.
>
> After that, I followed the instructions on the Wiki at
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/BuildBot.  Create a buildbot account, make
> sure /usr/local/bin is on the PATH of the buildbot account, and issue
> the commands shown there.


Yes thanks this is what I was thinking "set up a build slave for Python
testing", No reason this would not work on a leopard 10.6 machine?

Thanks

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