>> Therefore, I'm concerned that I will have to work out all the details >> on my own, just so that I can produce the b2 binaries (says); this is >> not something I look forward to. > > How much does the binary build process really depend on version control? > I.e., what would be stopping you from making a binary from an archive made > with e.g. "svn export"? (I'm really asking because I don't know.)
The build process currently compiles a program (make_buildinfo), which in turn finds the subversion installation, and runs subwcrev if found. If no .svn folder is found, it falls back to the version information in the export. I would have to try out what exactly will happen when I try to build the current hg conversion result on Windows, but chances are that the resulting interpreter will crash because the string manipulation fails to find the right substrings. > Well, put some butter to the fish: how many volunteers would you deem > sufficient, and which specific tasks are uncared for in the infrastructure? > I can only speak for myself, but I am prepared to put in my time. As a starting point, I'd like to see a complete, current conversion result, using as many repositories as planned, and including as many branches into each repository as planned (rather than the giant cpython repository which we have now - unless the plan now is that there will be a single giant repository). Then the existing patches to the build identification should be applied, and the repositories should be opened for (test) commits. Then people could start identifying problems. As a parallel activity, I'd also ask that the PEP is finished, or atleast put into a form where the authors consider it complete (again so that people could start identifying issues, and determine where the PEP differs from reality - currently most obviously in the branching approach). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
