[New-bugs-announce] [issue46789] Restore caching of externals on Windows buildbots

[Jeremy Kloth]

New submission from Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth+python-tracker at gmail.com>:

A recent change to the buildmaster config effectively disabled the caching of the externals for Windows buildbots:
   https://github.com/python/buildmaster-config/pull/255

If the caching is desired, a simple change to the buildmaster config is needed (define EXTERNALS_DIR in the build environment).  Or, to continue with fetching them each run, the buildbot scripts in Tools\buildbot can be simplified.

Once a course of action is determined I can develop the requisite PR(s) in the appropriate tracker.

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components: Build, Tests, Windows
messages: 413494
nosy: jkloth, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Restore caching of externals on Windows buildbots

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