Hello Pierre and Neil, Thank you for both answers. Especially the `appveyor.yml` file was helpful. I've managed to get buildbot-worker v0.9.3 running on Python v2.7.6.
I'll add some details in case someone will stumble upon this thread in the future: The patch I wrote about in my original mail turned out to be necessary only when the environment is missing the NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS environment variable. It appears that this variable is used by <python2.7>/lib/multiprocessing/__init__.py, which uses it inside the implementation of the `cpu_count` function. If this variable is missing, the function throws NotImplementedError instead of returning a default of 1 cpu, and `buildbot-worker` doesn't catch this exception. While I understand that a missing NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS variable is a problem on my side, I think buildbot-worker also might have a bug in this case, because Python documentation states that `cpu_count()` function is allowed to throw an exception. I think it might be a good idea to catch it in the code, and set worker's CPU count to 1, if it will occur. Anyway, setting the correct NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS variable fixed the problem for me. Thank you for your help, Grzegorz Antoniak On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:28:20AM -0600, Neil Gilmore wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Our Windows workers are generally running on 2.7.12, with a few older back > to 2.7.6 (I think, I'm too lazy to look). We start them using ssh under > Cygwin, if that matters to you. However, the few running a release version > are running 0.9.1. The others are running 0.9.9rc2(?) or so. I don't recall > any significant patches. We aren't running any masters on Windows. > > Neil Gilmore > grammatech.com > > On 1/16/2017 8:25 AM, Pierre Tardy wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Buildbot at the moment only works with python 2. > >We are working at the python3 port but it is not quite ready (I'm hoping > >we can have worker support for 0.9.4 thanks to the great work from Craig) > > > >As per the Windows support, we are supporting windows by running unit test > >suite and integration suite on appveyor. > >However, according to our statistics, we have no user accepting to send > >info to the statistic server and running windows. :-( > >So I cannot say "it works, we have people running it". We are however > >interested in having windows users, and are willing to help as much as we > >can. > > > >You can see on the appveyor.yml how we install pywin32 and other buildbot > >dependencies: > >https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/blob/master/appveyor.yml#L13 > > > >Let us know. > >Pierre > > > > > >Le lun. 16 janv. 2017 à 12:15, Grzegorz Antoniak <g...@anadoxin.org > ><mailto:g...@anadoxin.org>> a écrit : > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to know what is the preferred version of Python for > > running > > buildbot-worker on Windows? > > > > Currently I'm trying 0.9.3 on Python 3.6, but it fails with an error: > > > > File "C:\python36\lib\site-packages\twisted\spread\pb.py", > > line 1076 [...] > > m.update(password) > > builtins.TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing > > > > I've also tried 0.9.2 and 0.9.1, same error. > > > > I've tried to install 0.9.3 on Python 2.7, but it failed with this > > error: > > > > File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\buildbot_worker\base.py", > > line 315[...] > > self.numcpus = multiprocessing.cpu_count() > > File "c:\python27\lib\multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 136, > > in cpu_count > > raise NotImplementedError('cannot determine number of cpus') > > exceptions.NotImplementedError: cannot determine number of cpus > > > > I've checked the documentation for `multiprocessing.cpu_count`, and it > > says that this function can throw NotImplementedError, as it > > happens on > > my machine. I've added a simple patch to catch this exception in > > `base.py` around line 315, the error was gone and the worker started > > successfully, but now I'm having some problems installing `pywin32` > > (which are not related to this mailing list) so the worker is > > still not > > fully operational. > > > > So I'm wondering, what is the Python setup of the developers? Which > > version of Python is known to work on Windows without any patches? > > > > Regards, > > Grzegorz Antoniak _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@buildbot.net https://lists.buildbot.net/mailman/listinfo/users