[Buildbot-devel] Problems configuring buildbot.

[Nick Trout]

> Ok, I finally bit the bullet and installed a functional windows python
> environment. The bulk of the test-case failures are now fixed in CVS,
the
> two
> remaining ones (the test_webPathname_port problem that Nick saw
before,
> and
> the new failure in test_config.Save.testSave that I added last night)
> should not affect normal operations. I think it's safe to try out CVS
> again
> :).

Ok, great. I did an update and got:

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[ERROR]: testSave (buildbot.test.test_config.Save)


  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line
117, in m
aybeDeferred
    result = f(*args, **kw)
  File "z:\tools\pythonlibs\buildbot\test\test_config.py", line 938, in
testSave

    from twisted.scripts import mktap, twistd
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\scripts\twistd.py", line
6, in ?
    from twisted.python import log, syslog
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\python\syslog.py", line 5,
in ?
    syslog = __import__('syslog')
exceptions.ImportError: No module named syslog
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=======
[ERROR]: test_webPathname_port (buildbot.test.test_web.WebTest)


  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line
117, in m
aybeDeferred
    result = f(*args, **kw)
  File "z:\tools\pythonlibs\buildbot\test\test_web.py", line 157, in
test_webPat
hname_port
    page = dr(d, 10)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\util.py", line 54,
in deferr
edResult
    result = _Wait.wait(d, timeout)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\twisted\trial\util.py", line 275,
in wait
    raise e
twisted.internet.defer.TimeoutError: None
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-------
Ran 107 tests in 60.908s

FAILED (skips=12, errors=2, successes=93)
>>>>

> On the plus side, I should have enough pieces to debug
> test_webPathname_port
> now. On the minus side, my brain feels unclean and I'm certain I aged
> several
> years in the last two hours. I don't know how (or why) you windows
people
> put
> up with it :).

The bulk of work software mandates it, and Linux is just not there yet
in terms of ease of administration. I'm not a MS stalwart by any stretch
of the imagination either.

Nick