Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2011, at 15:18, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > > > I've once again spent an hour building PyLucene, which gives me some > > sympathy for issue 10: > >=20 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PYLUCENE-10 > >=20 > > I was thinking about how to address this... > >=20 > > One thing I've found useful at PARC is to set up buildbot tests for > > hard-to-package systems. Basically, the test just waits for changes to > > the SCM repository, checks out the code, and tries to build. A nice > > side-effect is that, when successful, it produces a binary for the build > > slave's platform. > >=20 > > I'm unsure whether this would work for PyLucene. The ASF build slaves > > seem pretty coarse-grained. I see that there is an "osx-slave", but > > there's no information about it (10.5? 10.6? 10.7?), no contact, and it's > > down. > > I know nothing about the Apache buildbots. Why not contribute buildbots for P= > yLucene at PARC ?
Because this is something the ASF should really address. I'm happy to volunteer to set up a PyLucene build test on an ASF buildbot -- maybe more than one if it's easy to clone. Just looked at snakebite.org -- no OS X buildbots there, either. Bill > > Andi.. > > >=20 > > A possibility would be to use the Python buildbots, but of course there's > > no assurance that Java is installed on any of them. > >=20 > > Bill
