[Zope3-dev] A Call for Slaves

[Benji York]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>> Or you can fetch the compiled .pyds from my member page, as the
>> current Windows build-bot slaves do (see the "wget PYDs log" and
>> "unzip PYDs log" steps from the "Windows 2000 fred-win" column at
>> <http://buildbot.zope.org/>).
> 
> Sorry, just re-read this, now I'm lost again.
> I just assumed the buildbot would build these, since it's well, a build 
> bot? 

The current config for Windows fetches the pre-compiled PYDs.  That way 
you aren't required to have the compilers installed.  I was just asking 
to test the waters about people having/installing the compilers in the 
future.

> What exactly IS the buildbot doing then?

It's running the tests, that's what we're interested in.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation