Automated distribution building tools to support SpamBayes

[Skip Montanaro]

Thanks. I've had a couple references to Appveyor, so will see if I can make
heads or tails of it during my Christmas-to-New Year's break.

Skip

On Dec 15, 2017 5:43 PM, "Ned Batchelder" <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:

> On 12/15/17 2:03 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> SpamBayes (http://www.spambayes.org/) has languished for quite awhile,
>> in part because nobody is around who can put together a Windows
>> installer. Unfortunately, most users are on Windows and have to work
>> around problems caused by the march of time and consequent beefing up
>> of Windows security.
>>
>> I don't do Windows, but I wonder... Can one of the various continuous
>> integration tools out there be enlisted to build Windows installers?
>> The SB code is written in Python, uses the Win32 extension, and is
>> hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/smontanaro/spambayes), so
>> something which plays nice with that environment would be a plus. I'm
>> slowly gaining familiarity at work with Bamboo (very, very slowly), so
>> the general idea of what CI tools can do is starting to sink in. Since
>> I'm a captive Atlassian customer at work, though, I don't know what
>> limitations I might encounter trying to use it in an open source
>> environment.
>>
>> Any feedback appreciated. As this is only Python-related in the sense
>> that SpamBayes is written in Python, feel free to reply off-list.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>
> I use AppVeyor CI to build Windows installers for coverage.py.  It's not
> straightforward though, there are Powershell scripts, etc. The config file
> is here: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/blob/master/appveyor.yml
> with other necessities in the ci folder.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
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