[Buildbot-devel] Problems with buildbot 0.7.5 on WinXP

[Matthieu Brucher]

Hi,

I think I encountered the bug as well and I changed twistw for twistd
without a problem.

Matthieu

2007/7/30, John Pye <john.pye at anu.edu.au>:
>
> Excuse me if this message has already gone to the list -- I have been
> getting email messages saying that there was a fatal delivery error, so I am
> re-sending...
> --- --- ---
>
> Hi all
>
> I have tried to install Buildbot as a service on Windows XP. Previously
> I think this worked, but currently it seems to be broken, perhaps due to
> a new version of Twisted.
>
> I get an error like this:
>
> File "c:\Python25\lib\site-packages\buildbot\scripts\startup,py", line
> 114, in launch
>     from twisted.scripts.twistw import run
> ImportError: No module named twistw
>
> Originally I thought that the problem was the Buildbot didn't realise
> that 'twistw' has been renamed '_twistw'. But looking at it further, it
> seems to me that Twisted may have changed its API and no longer provides
> a 'run' function; 'run' is now a method of the ApplicationRunner object,
> and it seems that it now requires something like
>
> W = _twistw.WindowsApplicationRunner(X)
> W.run()
>
> The X is the 'config' argument of the ApplicationRunner in
> twisted.application.app. I'm not sure what it should contain. Perhaps
> the 'config' value from my 'buildbotstart.py' script at
> http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/BuildBot
>
> So as far as I can tell this looks like a bug with Buildbot. Can anyone
> confirm this?
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> PS I think it would be rather good if a Windows version of Buildbot
> could be concocted that dealt with this job of installing the Buildbot
> service. It's rather tedious and I imagine might not be so hard to
> automate. But obviously it would take a bit of work.
>
>
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