[SciPy-dev] [Fwd: Build bots?]

[Robert Kern]

Fernando Perez wrote:
> bryce hendrix wrote:
> 
>>Eric Jonas wrote:
> 
>>>  I'm still not quite clear on how it's ill-suited to python -- is it
>>>because building things on python rarely "breaks"?
>>> 
>>
>>I didn't want to get into it too much, but there are (were) a few problems:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Just curious: has anyone looked at the buildbot system which the core python 
> team is using for python itself (it's a new thing).
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/
> 
> I think it's a zope-based contraption.  I don't know anything beyond this, but 
>   from looking at the resulting output
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk/
> 
> it does seem to report on tests and similar things.

I think that we (Enthought) used to use it at one point. Not sure why we stopped.

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