Unable to merge pyrex code to PQM

[Martin Pool]

On 7/11/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> It might also be nice if it could run a version with no dependencies, to make
> sure that we still pass even when they are not available.
>
> You do start getting into permutation issues, but I know we've had quite a few
> tests which accidentally depended on paramiko (because transport/{sftp,ssh}.py
> unconditionally required it).

I think we probably need post-commit tests for more of the variations,
probably by setting up something like buildbot to test not just
different OSs but also running with and without pyrex, on 2.4 and 2.5,
and so on.

Speaking of this kind of thing: the pqm machine (actually a chroot) is
currently running Dapper, which is the current long-term-support
Ubuntu release, and so the preferred OS for most of our data center
machines.  We could ask for it to be upgraded to eg feisty, which
would make installation of some build dependencies much easier, since
they could just be taken from the distribution rather than specially
backported.  On the other hand we would lose some implicit test
coverage on Dapper, since many of us interactively test on Feisty and
I doubt anyone still runs Dapper on their workstation.
-- 
Martin