[pypy-dev] adding numpy test target to buildbot

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Ronan's git repository and a few modifications we pass about 30% of
> the numpy test suite.
> It seems like now is the time to add a build target to our nightly builds
> that would install numpy and test a build:
> 1) download a pre-built version of pypy from nightlies
> 2) untar it, optionally create a virtualenv
> 3) install nose
> 4) git clone or git fetch the modified numpy repository, i.e.
> https://github.com/rlamy/numpy
> 5) checkout the correct branch "git checkout pypy_hack"
> 6) pypy setup.py install (in the numpy directory)
> 7) pypy -c "import numpy;numpy.test()" and collect the results
> 8) create an output page with the results of the nose tests
>
> I started this a bit on the numpy-tests branch of the buildbot , but it
> seems to be turning into something too big:
> - Are the steps I outlined above reasonable, can we do some shortcuts?

sounds good

> - buildbot has no support for git, I wrote a git_update function but it
> needs test

i don't believe you http://docs.buildbot.net/0.8.1/Git.html

> - how do I get nose installed?

pip install nose?

> - can buildbot parse output from nose?

buildbot does not parse output "summary" is our custom hack.

>
> And most importantly:
> - anyone want to take lead on this :) ?

not me ;-)

>
> Matti
>
> N.B. - I have some modifications to Ronan's github here,
> https://github.com/mattip/numpy, on the pypy-hack branch, that branch is
> actually the source of my 30% figure.
>
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