On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> 4) Automating (scripting) more of the process where possible (I'm sure > that's not straightforward... just thinking out loud) > > 5) Release formal "release candidates" -- IMHO these would be most > useful if we expect more people to download and try them than are > already tracking SVN. But even without that, it may help find packaging > bugs (such as the configobj stuff) before declaring something a "release". Looks like we are on the same page, since I just hit send in another thread in the same vein, and have updated the release_guide with similar suggestions :-) I think one other thing that could help here would be to have nightly builds and sdists. The Makefile for OS X, with some easy modifications to get snapshots from HEAD, would enable this. With nightly builds and prominent links on the home page, we will get early warning on problems that creep into the code base since presumably we will have more people running from HEAD and exercising the installers in all the wild and woolly environments that are out there. It would also force us to have a fully automated checkout/build/test/post process that will serve us well in the actual releases. I have access to a win32 and linux machine that are up and on the network most of the time, and could use these as build/test bots for those platforms. I have an OS X laptop, but it is not up or on the network most of the time so is not a good candidate for this. Does anyone have a suitable OSX 10.5 box on the network with ssh access that would be suitable to host nightly builds? I could handle all the code in svn and you could just svn up and point a cron job to some script in release/osx, or you could give me ssh access to the machine and I could maintain the job. As I pointed out in another thread, I would like to have a build script for win32 in svn that works the same way, but this is a harder problem, since getting a working build environment is a harder process. The ideal script would bootstrap the entire build dependency tree, manipulate setup.cfg automatically, and build the binaries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
