exarkun at twistedmatrix
Oct 9, 2009, 5:52 AM
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Re: [New-bugs-announce] [issue7064] Python 2.6.3 / setuptools 0.6c9: extension module builds fail with KeyError
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On 5 Oct, 01:04 pm, ziade.tarek [at] gmail wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:50 PM, <skip [at] pobox> wrote:
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>> Ned> Due to a change in distutils released with Python 2.6.3,
>>packages
>> Ned> that use setuptools (version 0.6c9, as of this writing), or
>>the
>> Ned> easy_install command, to build C extension modules fail ...
>> ...
>> Ned> Among the packages known to be affected include lxml,
>> Ned> zope-interface, jinja2, and, hence, packages dependent on
>>these
>> Ned> packages (e.g. sphinx, twisted, etc.).
>>
>>Maybe the Python test suite should include tests with a small number
>>of
>>widely used non-core packages like setuptools. I realize the pybots
>>project
>>exists to tackle this sort of stuff in greater detail. I'm thinking
>>more of
>>a smoke test than a comprehensive test suite covering all external
>>packages.
>>Setuptools is particularly important because so many extension authors
>>use
>>it. If it breaks it implicitly breaks a lot of PyPI packages.
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>I have created 6 months ago such a buildbot that downloads tarballs
>from the community,
>and run a few distutils commands on them, and make sure the result is
>similar in 2.6/2.7.
>and for "sdist" that the resulting tarball is similar.
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>It was running over Twisted and Numpy, but has been discontinued
>because
>it was on my own server, where it was hard to keep it up
>(cpu/bandwidth)
>
>If the Snakebite project could host my buildbot (or at least slaves)
>or if the PSF could pay for a dedicated
>server for this, we would be able to trigger such warnings, and
>provide an e-mail service to package maintainers for example.
>
>The build could occur everytime Distutils *or* the project changes.
If you want, until Snakebite is up, I can probably provide a slave which
can at least do this testing for Twisted and perhaps some other
projects.
Jean-Paul
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