[Biopython-dev] Volunteer buildslave machines? e.g. Windows & 32 bit Linux

[Manlio Calvi]

I have a question,
exactly what it takes? I mean what kind of machine you need, must be a
server? Long story short, could be a common home box?My PC in this
case (a mid/mid-high range gaming machine) and what entail exactly as
software installed(apart biopython and dependencies, of course) and
internet access?
I'm keeping general because I believe that knowing what is exactly
needed in a detailed way could be useful here.

In all cases my machine is a Win7 x64 box, I'm currently running python 2.7 x64.

Cheers,
Manlio

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Tiago and I have been looking after a range of machines
>> covering different operating systems and Python versions,
>> running as volunteer buildslaves for Biopython using buildbot:
>> http://testing.open-bio.org/biopython/tgrid
>>
>> Does anyone else have a lab/home server which could be
>> setup to run nightly Biopython tests for us via buildbot?
>> Ideally the machine needs to be online overnight (European
>> time) when the server is currently setup to schedule tests:
>>
>> http://www.biopython.org/wiki/Continuous_integration
>>
>> Our elderly 32 bit Linux desktop which has been running
>> as a Biopython buildslave for the last few years is finally
>> failing (hard drive problem).
>>
>> I would particularly like to see new buildslaves for:
>>
>> * 32 bit Linux
>> * 64 bit Windows
>> * Windows 7 or 8 (we have a 32 bit XP machine)
>>
>> If you think you might be able to help, the first hurdle is
>> verifying you can checkout Biopython from github, and
>> then compile the source (this is non-trivial on Windows,
>> especially for 64 bit Windows).
>>
>> Note that this is separate from the continuous integration
>> testing done for use via TravisCI whenever the GitHub
>> repository is updated - this is very useful but currently
>> only covers Linux:
>> https://travis-ci.org/biopython/biopython/builds
>>
>> The key benefit of the buildbot server is cross platform
>> testing - but this requires a range of volunteer machines.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
> Anyone?
>
> Right now I'm particularly interesting in Windows 32bit,
> since my own machine has started showing test failures
> with SQLite and I would like to know if this is unique or
> a common issue (e.g. due to a Windows update):
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2014-March/011169.html
>
> Also a couple of people have suggested using VMs,
> which would be a neat solution but some physically
> redundancy seems helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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