[Python-Dev] building a module catalogue with buildbot

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> > My initial thought was that we could ask alpha testers to run this script on
> > their alpha builds, and report back, but it just struck me that the "buildbot"
> > already builds stuff on a couple of interesting platforms.
> >
> > Can buildbot deal with custom test/validation scripts, and collect the output
> > somewhere ?
>
> Collecting the output is the real challenge. Basically, you are
> restricted to putting stdout of a process into a file. So a result
> that is a set of linked HTML files is not supported.

The listmodule utility only outputs a plain list of available modules.  Just
being to able to scrape the lists off http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/
would be good enough.

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