[Python-buildbots] Moving Python.org to Buildbot 9 + Python 3

[Craig Rodrigues]

Did you try leaving things on Python 2.6, but upgrading the worker to
buidlbot-worker 0.9.12 ?
buildbot-worker is still tested on Python 2.6.

--
Craig

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:07 PM, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes they look to be ok now.  Although for future reference, both Windows
> XP and 7 workers did initially break - apparently due to an incompatibility
> when using Python < 2.7 on the worker (I have 2.6 on those machines).  The
> master is sending remote methods down using unicode for method names.  So
> 2.7+ appears to be a worker requirement in this mixed-mode setup (though I
> doubt any new worker would try to use 2.6).
>
> For now, I've locally modified my version of twisted on each buildbot to
> deal with that, pending time to have them upgraded to 2.7 (or possibly in
> the Win7 case, just go to 3.x).
>
> I'm not sure if that might be the same issue with kloth-win64.
>
> -- David
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:46 PM, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Oh, and I can offer any of my Windows workers for interoperability
>>> testing if you'd like me to temporarily configure them to an
>>> additional master.  At least one of them (XP) is probably not worth
>>> the effort of getting to (a) vs. (b).
>>>
>>
>>
>> I don't think I need this right now.
>> If I look at:
>> http://buildbot.python.org/all/#/workers
>>
>> Your windows buildbot workers seem to be working fine with the new
>> buildbot master.
>>
>> This is one buildbot worker kloth-win64 which is not working.
>> I don't know what the problem with that one is.
>>
>> --
>> Craig
>>
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