[Grok-dev] Errors with the current dependencies?? (Uwe Hentzschel)

[Martijn Faassen]

Steve Schmechel wrote:
> I believe the dependency list works fine for Python 2.4 and 2.5.
> The problem comes in when you try to use Python 2.6.  Maybe certain 
> package versions are not available on PyPI.  We don't have different 
> version.cfg files depending on Python version, right? 

No we don't, as far as I'm aware.

> Grokproject doesn't have any hidden code that affects things based 
> on Python version, right?

I don't think so.

> It must be something in setuptools and/or buildout, but I know
> little about the inner workings of either.
> 
> I think we just need to decide if we are going to support Python 2.6 
> with Grok 1.1 and do the necessary testing to make sure everything 
> builds and the tests pass.

We definitely want to support Python 2.6 with Grok 1.1.

> Do we have some sort of automated test setup that supports different
> platforms and language versions?  I think I remember something like 
> that being talked about some time ago.

Yes, we have buildbots running here:

http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/process/buildbots.html

This one should have stuff:

http://dev.thehealthagency.com/buildbot/

Regards,

Martijn