[Python-Dev] asdl.py and Python-ast.[hc]

[Eli Bendersky]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

> 2013/9/26 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Earlier this morning I had a slight tackle with a couple of the 3.4 bots
> > (sorry everyone!). I fixed some problems in asdl.py -
> > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/21d46e3ae60c - and used the 'with'
> > statement. Some bots don't have Python 2.6+ and couldn't bootstrap
> > Python-ast.h/c
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > * Should I always check-in Python-ast.h and Python-ast.c when I touch
> asdl*
> > ? The generated files are unchanged, it's only the timestamp that
> changed.
> > * Can we, in theory, use new Pythons for asdl* code, because Python-ast.*
> > are, in fact, checked in so they don't have to be rebuilt by the bots or
> > users?
>
> We should have the buildbots run "make touch", so they don't need to
> run asdl_c.py.
>

How should we go about doing this? I don't think we have it documented in
the devguide how to tweak the buildbot scripts?

Eli
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