[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

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    Neal> How often is the python build broken or otherwise unusable?  

Not very often.  I use the head branch of the repository as the source of
the interpreter I run on my laptop.  It generally takes just a couple
minutes on my now-aging PowerBook to svn up and reinstall.  I can only
recall one time in the past where I had to temporarily fall back to 2.4
because of some change that broke an application.

Admittedly, I'm not as sophisticated a user as Fredrik or Glyph, but I
suspect that my usage of the language isn't all that different from most
Python developers out there.

    Neal> Is part of your point that these developers only care about
    Neal> something called "release" and they won't start testing before
    Neal> then?  If that's the case why don't we start making
    Neal> (semi-)automated alpha releases every month?  

How would that be any easier than a user setting up a read-only repository
and svn-up-ing it once a month then using that as the default interpreter on
that person's development machine?  I maintain interpreters for 2.3, 2.4 and
bleeding edge at the moment.  If I need to it's fairly trivial (a symlink
change) to fall back to the latest stable release.

Glyph, would that sort of scheme work for you?

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