[Biopython-dev] Python 3 porting

[Peter]

2010/7/11 Tiago Antão <tiagoantao at gmail.com>:
>
> I was thinking in doing a small script that every night does a git
> pull, runs the tests in python3 and, if something that was py3k
> compatible in the past does break, then it sends an email to
> biopython-dev. The point of this would be to make development the
> least cumbersome possible: people do not want to have to test
> everything in BOTH 2 and 3 (just 2). They only have to intervene
> (and are only informed) if there is a new problem.
>

That is worth doing, but beyond that I've been thinking about
some kind of buildbot doing nightly builds and tests on assorted
machines, pushing the reports to the webserver. Doing this on
Python 3.1 as well as Python 2.4 to 2.7 would be great. We
could probably have a simple HTML upload to the server using
an SSH key (no new services or software required on the server),
ideally via a new restricted user account with access only to one
folder on the website.

Peter