[Buildbot-devel] First release candidate for 0.7.12

[Charles Lepple]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What bugs me is that I'm seeing "Buildbot needs to be installed" in
>> test_limitlogs.py (the first failure). Do we have a test procedure
>> that takes this into account? Is there a way to do this from the
>> install directory that makes sure we are testing the new code, not
>> what is installed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> I don't know if that test could be configured to run buildbot from the
> build directory, but as written you're right to note that it could
> accidentally test an old buildbot.  The test is really checking how
> well the new format of buildbot.tac works with twistd, and that the
> 'buildbot' executable creates that file correctly.
>
> If we assume that tests are run in a virtualenv, with 'python setup.py
> develop' in effect, then the test is fine.  But I don't see another
> way to run this test effectively.

Hmm, I will have to look into virtualenv again.

Thanks,

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- Charles Lepple